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NIST Speeches and Testimony

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NCSL International 2011, Keynote Address: NIST and NCSLI: Working Together to Support the Nation's Measurement System

July 6, 2011

It's a pleasure to be here this morning and to kick off an anniversary celebration like the one we're here to have this week. Of all the anniversary events you...

Closing Keynote: Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop III

April 7, 2011

I always worry when the introduction starts out with "he gets it" because now I'll probably prove Donna wrong. It's a privilege to be here this afternoon and...

Groundbreaking Net Zero Building

March 25, 2011

Thank you, Shyam, and hello to everybody. Thank you for joining us today for this celebration event. An event like this is really a beginning. It's a...

Dedication Ceremony, Brockman Hall for Physics, Rice University

March 24, 2011

Well, it's a great pleasure to have been invited here today to join you for this celebration. I think of all the phases of a construction project, this is the...

NIST: A National Resource for the Forensics Community

December 6, 2010

MS: Dr. Patrick Gallagher was confirmed as the 14th Director of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, on...

Working Together for Interoperability

December 3, 2010

Listen to a .mp3 of the speech MS: Thank you all for sticking with us here to the finish line of Grid Interop. With a snow storm impending, I'm sure everyone is...

Strengthening the Connections: Research Innovation and Economic Growth

October 7, 2010

View accompanying presentation (PDF) Good afternoon. For those of you do not know me, I'm Patricia Beeson. I'm the Provost of the University of Pittsburgh, and...

Ground Breaking Ceremony, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

August 4, 2010

Good morning everybody. It is a pleasure and a delight to be here and join my colleagues and friends to congratulate you on this moment. This is a celebration...

Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Acceptance of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Visionary Award

June 9, 2010

Thank you, everybody. It is a great honor and privilege for me to be able to accept this award on behalf of all of the 3,000 employees who work here in...

Katharine Gebbie Speech: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Quantification and Verification Strategies Workshop

June 2, 2010

Thank you and welcome. The National Institute of Standards and Technology initiated this workshop to provide an opportunity for you, our customers and...

Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Remarks from the AAAS Forum

May 14, 2010

Thank you. Good morning everybody. This will be the first time I've used sock puppets. It's great to be here. This is the marquee event for all science and...

Dr. Patrick D. Gallagher, NIST and Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Industry Day

March 2, 2010

Thank you, Robert. Good morning everybody. Welcome to NIST. Let's see who drank their coffee already and who didn't; it's an early start. I'm delighted to open...

Dr. Patrick Gallagher, CyberMaryland Summit

January 11, 2010

Congressman Van Hollen, thank you very much for that kind introduction. It's my great pleasure as a host of today's event to welcome you all to NIST. We are...

Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Swearing-In Ceremony

November 20, 2009

Wow. Thank you very much. I want to start—this is going to sound like an acceptance speech, but of course it's not—I want to start with some thank yous, and I...

Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Opening Keynote, Grid-Interop 2009

November 17, 2009

As prepared Good morning. I'd like to add my welcome to all of you. And, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to our partners who have worked so...

Remarks of Dr. Richard F. Kayser at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Public Meeting

September 17, 2009

Good afternoon. I’d like to thank the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its inspection of the plutonium spill at NIST Boulder and for providing NIST with...

The Future of Construction: Getting the U.S. There First

August 7, 2008

INTRODUCTION Good afternoon. Thank you for this opportunity to tell you about the National Institute of Standards and Technology and how we work with CII and...

African-American Technological Contributions: Past, Present, and Future

February 20, 2008

Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today. It's important to pause and reflect on how African Americans and our ancestors have helped to further...

First Arab Conference on Calibration and Measurement

November 6, 2007

Presentation Slides that accompanied this talk [pdf] I'm excited to be here for this First Arab Conference on Calibrations and Measurements. It is fitting that...

Department of Commerce Colloquium for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

November 1, 2007

Thank you, Richard. Good morning everyone! I'm thrilled to be here today. There are a lot of things I get to do in my job that are rewarding, but this...

Sponsors Reception for the American Chemical Society National Awards

October 30, 2007

Innovation, Chemistry, and Partnerships It is a pleasure and an honor to be here with you tonight to pay tribute to the sponsors of the American Chemical...

Making Manufacturing a National Priority

June 28, 2007

Thank you for the opportunity to address NACFAM. In the next few minutes I'd like to discuss: How the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) provides...

Access to STEM Talent

June 27, 2007

On behalf of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, I would like to extend a warm welcome to our postdocs and cosponsors of this event. This event...

Building the Innovation Infrastructure

June 12, 2007

Good morning and welcome to the session on Supporting National and Regional Innovation for Economic Prosperity. It is my great honor to help set the stage for...

Roundtable on Nanotechnology Commercialization

April 3, 2007

Remarks as prepared. Welcome, everyone, to the roundtable on "Nanotechnology Commercialization: Where Are We Now? I would like to begin with a few notes...