Congratulations
to Jarrett
Inn on Receiving the Destination Anywhere: Award of Excellence
from VSA Arts and Volkswagen
for his Artwork
Second
Open Grid Forum (OGF) Workshop OnGrid Reliability and Robustness in
Grid Computing Systems At OGF19, Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
USA, January 29 – February 2, 2007
NIST HealthCare
Standards Landscape listed in Government
Health IT
SAMATE Proceedings of the
Static Analysis Summit, June 29, 2006.
NSRL used in commercial company's web
service to identify unknown files
HIMSS Summit: Achieving
National Healthcare Transformation June 7-8, 2006 Washington
D.C. NIST is a cosponsor of this event. (please note: this link
takes you off the NIST site)
NIST Director testifies on Healthcare
IT before a Congressional subcommittee.
NIST
demonstrates Medical Device testing tool,
ICS-Generator
at
HIMSS
Conference's
Interoperability Showcase, February 13-16, San Diego CA.
NIST
and Global Grid Forum Hosts:
Workshop
on Reliability and Robustness in Grid Computing Systemss,
February 13-16, 2006, Athens, Greece. Call for Participation.
Request
for IEEE 1073 enabled medical devices.
A
new W3C Recommendation,
QA
Framework: Specification Guidelines now
available. NIST was co-editor of this how to write a better specification
guideline.
NIST
contributes over 6000 tests to the W3C
XML
Query Test Suite.
October
2005,,
NIST
Tech Beat article features
Healthcare
Standards Landscape
Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing NIST
establishes open source project iheos, hosted on Source Forge.
Message
Maker
(Beta version) a HL7 v2 conformance toool is available for download.
NSRL
for Voting Allows
verification that voting software has not been modified.
NIST
Medical Device Testing project demonstrates ICS-generation tool
for medical devices at HIMSS IHE Showcase,
Febrary 2006. This tool facilitates the creation of vendor conformance
statements as well as section of tests that would be applicable to testing
a particular device. NIST works collaborately with the newly formed
Patient Care Device Domain within IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
initiative) and the IEEE 1073 Standards committee in developing conformance
tests and tools to facilitate adoption of standards for communicating
medical device data throughout the healthcare enterprise as well as
into the electronic health record.
NIST prsents voting standard development activities. NIST researchers
to present at the
EAC Standards Board meeting.
CONGRATULATIONS. Jim Lyle and Doug White
who are recognized for their technical achievement in Computer Forensics
by receiving this year's Department of Commerce Silver Medal.
Software
Assurance Workshop. On August 10 and 11, 2005, the Software Quality
Group, Software and Systems Division, Information
Technology Laboratory hosted a workshop on Describing the State of the
Art in Software Security Assurance (SSA) Tools at NIST North. 45 people
from outside NIST attended, including representatives from the federal
government (NSF, FDA, NSA, DoD, and DHS), seven universities, more than
a dozen tool vendors and service providers, and many research companies.
Several groups that have been developing taxonomies of security flaws
and vulnerabilities exchanged notes and agreed to work together to develop
standard nomenclature. Discussions ranged from whether SSA tools and
services are commercially viable to whether there was enough academic
interest and research to how best to encourage more secure software
to be developed. Many participants volunteered to help work toward a
standard reference dataset, a collection of thousands of examples of
programs with security flaws, which can be used to validate new work
in automatically detecting and preventing such flaws. This workshop
is one of a series in the
NIST SAMATE project, which is funded by DHS to help identify and
enhancement software security assurance tools.
Software Assurance Workshop, August 10-11 2005. Highlights
of the Workshop.
NIST CFTT project for testing forensics technologies featured
in IT
Audit.
HIMSS Summit:
Achieving National Healthcare Transformation June 6-7, 2005
New York. NIST is a cosponsor of this event.
(please note: this link takes you
off the NIST site)
ebXML Test Framework prototype demonstrated at XML
2004 Conference, Nov. 18, 2004 is now available for be download.
NIST CFTT project for testing forensics technologies featured
in IT
Audit.
Congratulations
to SSD Gold and Bronze Department of Commerce Award recipients.
more
Mike
Kass demonstrated the OASIS ebXML Test Framework at the XML
2004 Conference, Nov 18, 2004 in Washington DC. The OASIS ebXML
Test Framework is used to conduct remote ebXML testing, either for conformance
or interoperability. The ebXML Test Framework prototype is available
for download.
Congratulations
to SSD Gold and Bronze Department of Commerce Award recipients.Alan
Goldfine received the Gold medal for his work on the Smart Card project.
Mary Brady, Sandra Martinez, Carmelo Montanez-Rivera, Richard Rivello,
John Tebbut received the bronze medal for their work on XML conformance.
Both projects have had great success. We are very happy to see our members
honored for their dedicated work.
The NIST
Healthcare Standards Landscape
(http://hcsl.SSD.nist.gov) prototype is now available. Use it to search
for information about HC standards.
Grid
Computer project featured in
NIST Tech Beat. Work also noted by the Global Grid Forum's News
and cited by: Grid
Today and
Grid Computing Planet.
SSD
works with the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to help America
trust its voting software.
The DADS
Website (Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures) created
and edited by Paul Black is referenced in the May 2004 issue of
Science Magazine.
ITL
teamed up with the American Telemedicine Assoc. to improve eye patient
care with telemedicine standards.
TechBeat, April 23, 2004.
Doug
White presented testimony
on the National Software Reference
Library (NSRL) to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) at
a public
hearing on July 13, 2004.
July 9,
2004. SSD's Mark Skall and Doug White presented talks on Writing
Quality Specification and the National
Software Reference Library (NSRL) at a public hearing of the
Election Assistance Commission's Technical
Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) meeting.
NSRL
used for voting software. See articles in Government
Computer News and
Houston Chronicle.
HERMT
prototype now available for download. HERMT is a client-side tool to
monitor user interaction with web applications.
ITL
participates in the HL7 Interoperability Demo.
The NSRL
is featured in NIJ's Techbeat (fall 2003) "Electronic
Files: Criminal to Historical".
NIST
becomes member of File Signature Database Initiative.
Testimony
on NIST Smart Card activities by Deputy Under Secretary for Technology,
DoC, Benjamin Wu.
Paul
Black receives ITL Outstanding Authorship Award -- Paul Black, Rick
Kuhn of ITL, and Carl Williams of Physics Lab received the 2003 ITL
Outstanding Authorship Award for their paper
"Quantum Computing and Communications" published in the jounal Advances
in Computers, Academic Press, vol. 56. This publication resulted from
the ongoing collaboration in quantum computing research between ITL
and the NIST Physics Lab. It is a comprehensive survey of the current
state of the art in quantum computing and communications. It was recognized
for its reception by the community, and by its readability
ITL
participates in the HL7 Interoperability Demo. The HL7 Experimental
Registry, being built by ITL is a critical component of the "Standards
Drive Healthcare Solutions" demo at the Annual HIMSS
Conference, February 2004. The demo is designed to heighten awareness
of current efforts towards the interoperability of healthcare systems
and technology.
The
NSRL is featured in NIJ's Techbeat (fall 2003) -- "Electronic
Files: Criminal to Historical" describes how the NSRL is used for
uncovering evidence and preserving electronic records.
Tripwire
Press Release announces NIST
membership in the File Signature Database Initiative, whose goal
is to establish industry standards for capturing file fingerprints for
software.
The
ebXML Test Framework, developed by NIST for the OASIS IIC Committee,
was part of a demo "Achieving
Interoperability Using Test Frameworks"at XML 2003: Philadelphia
(8 Dec. 2003).
NIST
XQuery Test Suite Used by the BumbleBee XQuery Test Harness.
Television
Data Applications. The NIST report "Television Data Applications"
(NIST GCR 01-818) was well-received and widely distributed within the
TV industry. It was requested by Brian Aldous, Chair, International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) Interactive and Multimedia Broadcasting
Working Party (WP6M), and by Glenn Adams, Chair, Advanced Television
Systems Committee (ATSC) Digital TV Applications Software Environment
(DASE) Specialist Group (T3/S17). It was also requested by Art Allison,
Director Advanced Engineering, National Association of Broadcasters
(NAB), to be referenced in a NAB newsletter distributed on September
10, 2001 to all NAB member TV stations. This report (http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/staff/barkley/tv-data-apps-mdolan.pdf)
characterizes Interactive TV (ITV) applications, identifying those types
of applications which can be implemented in the different ITV environments.
In SSD's ITV standards and testing efforts, SSD partners with the
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) De
XML SCHEMA Conformance Test Suite Now Available. NIST has developed
and released conformance tests for the built-in simple datatypes defined
in the W3C Recommendation XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes. A description
of the tests and the tests themselves are freely available at: www.nist.gov/xml/
select "XML Schema."
XSL
Conformance Test Suites Now Available. NIST has developed and released
conformance tests for both Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) and XSL Transformations
(XSLT/Xpath). The XSL-FO tests were developed as part of a larger testing
effort within the W3C XSL-FO subgroup. Currently there are over 600
tests. The XSLT/Xpath tests were developed by NIST for inclusion in
the OASIS XSLT/XPath test suite. Currently, there are over 200 tests
that exercise various XSLT/Xpath features. The test suites are freely
available at: www.nist.gov/xml.
SSD
Announces the Availability of the SMPTE DDE (363) Trigger Test Tape
SSD has developed and released tests for DDE Triggers, a major element
of the Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Declarative
Data Essence (DDE) Standards for Interactive TV. The SSD Trigger Tests
complement tests for other elements of the DDE developed by Unisoft
Corporation. SSD has developed an Abstract Test Suite for DDE Triggers
and a VHS tape containing the trigger tests available to the public
for comment and use. xw2k.nist.gov/koo/test_suite/
NIST
Receives Third Patent for Role Based Access Control Work On March
3, 2001, patent #6,202,066 was issued to NIST for "Implementation of
Role/Group Permission Association Using Object Access Type." The inventors
were John Barkley and Tony Cincotta of SSD. This is the third patent
issued to NIST for work in Role Based Access Control (RBAC), a joint
project of SSD and CSD. The first two are #6,023,765 and #6,088,679.
NIST RBAC work is also prominently referenced in Microsoft Patent #6,014,666.
XML
Conformance Test Suite Release 2.0 Now Available In partnership
with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards (OASIS), NIST has developed and released an extended XML Test
Suite. The test suite, which includes over 2000 tests, provides developers
and users with the ability to determine whether their XML parsers conform
to the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation. The test suite can be used to improve
the quality of XML parsers and help ensure interoperable, robust XML
products. The test suite is freely available at www.nist.gov/xml/
National
Software Reference Library You can participate in the National Software
Reference Library (NSRL), a reference collection of software being developed
and managed by the SSD for the U.S. Department of Justice's National
Institute of Justice (NIJ). The collection contains profiles of known
software files for use by local, state, national, and international
law enforcement agencies, and industry organizations, in the investigation
of computer crimes. It will also assist organizations, such as software
manufacturers, distributors, and authors, in assuring that software
has not been modified from its original form. See www.nsrl.nist.gov/
