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NIST Speeches and Testimony

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Federal Technical Standards Workshop

August 4, 1998

Welcome to the 1998 Federal Technical Standards Workshop – the first one to include this variety of federal agencies. I want to congratulate the Department of...

Towards a Better Measurement System: Opportunities and Challenges for NIST and the U.S. Metrology Community

July 20, 1998

Good morning. NIST is proud to be a co-sponsor of this important workshop and symposium. This morning, I am going to give you a status report on what NIST aims...

The Future of Commercial and Military Measurements, Calibrations, and Standards

June 29, 1998

Good morning. I'm pleased to have this opportunity to share with you some thoughts on the importance of maintaining and further developing metrology and...

A New, "New Paradigm" for Government-Industry Cooperation?

June 23, 1998

Good evening, and thanks for inviting me. We at NIST and the Department of Commerce greatly appreciate what the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative is...

ASME-Industry Standards Summit

April 15, 1998

Thank you, Jim, and good morning. As anyone in Washington quickly learns, there are plenty of things you cannot do ... more things you should not do ... but one...

NIST and the Semiconductor Industry: A Four-Decade Partnership Focuses on the Future

March 23, 1998

Good morning and welcome to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. We are delighted to host this important conference. We also are proud to be...

Prepared Remarks for the American National Standards Institute Board Meeting

March 18, 1998

It's a pleasure to be with you, and especially to be here for an ANSI meeting at ASTM. I think we have made great progress in gaining consensus, and that we...

Industrial Innovation in the United States: The Complementary Role of the Federal Government

March 12, 1998

Thank you very much for inviting me here today. It gives me great pleasure to be speaking to this international community of friends. Not too many years ago...

The NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership: Improving the Technological Capability, Productivity and Competitiveness of Smaller Manufacturers

March 11, 1998

More than two centuries ago, Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the U.S. Treasury, wrote that "not only the wealth, but the independence and security of...

The Role of Photonics and Other Enabling Technologies in Driving Future Ecoomic Growth

October 23, 1997

Technology is driving growth at every level of our economy. For example, most economists now agree that three ingredients are essential to economic growth...

Optical Society of America Fall Executive Forum

September 29, 1997

Good afternoon, and thank you for the chance to bring you up to date on some of the activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology—NIST—that...

Perspectives on the Future of Manufacturing Engineering

September 18, 1997

Good afternoon. It's a great pleasure and a privilege for me to be here today, with the leaders of many of this nation's finest manufacturing companies. It's...

President's Address: National Conference on Weights and Measures

July 22, 1997

Prepared Remarks Good afternoon. It is especially rewarding to be able to speak with you today. I have spent most of my career working in laboratory-based...

International Symposium on the Year 2000

June 9, 1997

Thank you, Judy [Newton]. Good morning and welcome to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Before I introduce our keynote speaker, I'd like to...

4th Annual National Manufacturing Technology Conference

April 16, 1997

Let me add my personal welcome to NIST and to this conference. We're glad you're here, and we are eager to hear from you. Like the six other sponsors of this...

The Information Revolution: Software's Critical Connection

November 3, 1995

I was pleased to get the invitation to join you because I think you are at the beginning of a process of deciding where is it that this community really needs...

The National Information Infrastructure: A Revolution for the Millennium

October 4, 1995

It's really a pleasure to be here with all of you tonight. I'd like to talk about a tremendous transformation that we're all living through right now—the...

Trade and Technology Seminar Series at the University of Maryland

March 7, 1995

I am very pleased to be here today and particularly to be here with such a distinguished group. I wanted to talk about the role of technology in the global...

IEEE Symposium on the NII

June 26, 1994

The National Information Infrastructure, or NII, is a huge enterprise, one that I could talk about for hours on end. Today, I want to sketch out the overall...

Allen V. Astin: Invited Address Before American Physical Society

May 1, 1953

Since the time I was first asked to speak at this meeting of the American Physical Society, events have occurred that are of appreciable importance to the...