The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was established in 1901. NIST is a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Government attached to the Department of Commerce. The headquarters is in Gaithersburg, Maryland and the other facility is in Boulder, Colorado. NIST purpose is to advance innovation in measurement, calibration, standards, science in the U.S. From microwaves to electronic voting machines involve technology and standards. A primary component NIST pays close attention to is national security. NIST is divided into areas of physics, information technology, chemical science and technology, electronic and electronic engineering, material sciences, building and fire research.
Telecom
NIST, in collaboration with CU Boulder faculty, published a paper titled: "RF Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer with Integrated Superconducting Diplexers" demonstrating results that show a significant step toward a ...
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Electronics & Semiconductors
NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy in his lab. It was only as a last resort that he had even tried burying microscopic magnetic dots in hardened chunks of sugar—hard candy, basically—and sending ...
Nov 24, 2022
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Hardware
Human brains process loads of information. When wine aficionados taste a new wine, neural networks in their brains process an array of data from each sip. Synapses in their neurons fire, weighing the importance of each bit ...
Jul 18, 2022
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Software
Imagine a limited visibility scenario: Smoke fills the air, making it difficult to see more than a few feet in front of you. The roar of the flames is deafening, and you can feel the heat of the fire on your skin even through ...
Feb 24, 2023
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Engineering
Any time you turn on a light at home or in the office, you are expending energy. But what if flipping the light switch meant producing energy too?
Aug 19, 2021
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Computer Sciences
In efforts to automatically capture important data from scientific papers, computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method to accurately detect small, geometric objects ...
Aug 4, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
It's a question that many of us encounter in childhood: "Why did you do that?" As artificial intelligence (AI) begins making more consequential decisions that affect our lives, we also want these machines to be capable of ...
Aug 19, 2020
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Engineering
In firefighting, the worst flames are the ones you don't see coming. Amid the chaos of a burning building, it is difficult to notice the signs of impending flashover—a deadly fire phenomenon wherein nearly all combustible ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The newest generation of lithium-ion batteries now under development promises a revolution in powering cell phones, electric vehicles, laptops and myriad other devices. Featuring all solid-state, nonflammable components, ...
Nov 16, 2021
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Engineering
In the beginning, all that Stephan Schlamminger wanted to do was to write down an equation that would help him obtain a more precise value for G, the gravitational constant that determines the strength of the attraction between ...
Feb 17, 2022
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