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Commerce Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today announced the selection of 54 new industrial research projects chosen for cost-shared support under the Commerce
A worldwide competition to develop a new encryption technique that can be used to protect computerized information ended today when Secretary of Commerce Norman
The National Institute of Standards and Technology today unveiled a new Braille reader that may soon bring the benefits of electronic books to the blind. An
Interest in electronic books is soaring in the wake of best-selling novelist Stephen King's decision to publish his own e-book via the Internet earlier this
Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta has presented 18 local employees of the National Institute of Standards and Technology with Gold and Silver Medal Awards—the
Seven current and former members of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Boulder Laboratories shared in a Silver Medal award from the Department for their roles in
Pointing to prospective benefits for U.S. industry and consumers, the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology told a congressional
Engineers at the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's
TORONTO—A milestone in the development of a national system for laboratory accreditation was reached today with the signing of a memorandum of understanding
Audio cassettes, video tapes, credit cards and computer disks all store valuable information using very small magnetic tracks. Sometimes, these tracks are
The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Commerce today announced grants totaling nearly $1.1 million for six industry projects
New York and Washington, D.C., June 16, 2000: The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. voluntary consensus standards system
Ground Broken for World's Premier Measurement Research Facility (News Release) Advanced Measurement Laboratory brochure Advanced Measurement Laboratory Web site
Certifying new telecommunications equipment as compliant with federal and foreign requirements to prevent radio-wave interference should be cheaper and faster
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, is soliciting proposals for the services
Secretary William M. Daley and Republic of Korea Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy Kim Young-ho today signed an agreement that will establish a new
Eric A. Cornell, a physicist at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been elected a member of the National Academy of
Benefits of Bran A new, high-speed fiber-optic network capable of sending the equivalent of scores of encyclopedia sets per second is up and running in Boulder
Researchers from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies have teamed to produce a
The Commerce Department has named Alan P. Balutis, a 21-year veteran with the department, to be director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's
An investment that paid off 100-fold would make anyone glad. U.S. taxpayers can feel better than that about an even higher return on their investment in
Although you will not find it listed in the financial section of the newspaper, the "Baldrige Index" has once again outperformed the Standard & Poor's 500-this