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June
24, 2003 -- New Instrument Tests the Metal of WTC Steel,
Seizing the Moment: Improving Control of Quantum Dots, Designing
Efficient Cooling Systems for the Dog Days of Summer, Computer-Simulations
Mimic Growth of 'Dizzy Dendrites', Quick Links
June
9, 2003
-- Cracking
the Nanonewton Force Barrier, Ensuring the Safety of First Responder
Gas Masks, Tooth, Heal Thyself, Miniature Mix-ups to Speed Materials
Research, Deciphering How Arteries Contribute to Hypertension, Quick
Links
May
27, 2003
-- Advances
in DNA Analyses Help Identify 9/11 Victims, NIST Assists NASA in
Columbia Accident Investigation, A New Wireless Network for Emergency
Communications, Novel Spectroscopic Method Can Detect Terrorist
Threats, Ensuring the Reliability of Trace Explosive Detectors,
Quick Links
May
14, 2003
-- NIST
WTC Investigation Marks One-Third Mark with Progress Report, NIST
Announces Seven New Advanced Technology Program Awards, NIST Traps,
Prepares and Serves Atoms—One at a Time, Baldrige Index Beaten
by S&P 500 After Nine Winning Years, Clock Accuracy by Radio?
NIST Paper Tells All
April
28, 2003
-- NIST
Peanut Butter Standard Spreads Quality When Used, NIST, CU Publish
Recipe for Home-Cooked Bose-Einstein Condensate NIST-Led Simulation
Consortium Sets Goals, Seeks Members, NIST Workshop to Focus on
Card-Based Technologies, NIST Video, CD Feature Latest
Baldrige ‘Formulas for Success’, Report Features Three
Decades of NIST ‘Military Aid’
April
14, 2003
-- NIST
Research Improves Prospects for Reliable Quantum Computers, Bailey
Appointed Director of NIST Boulder Labs, NIST Offers Quick Guide
to DRM Organizations, Standards, CLEAN Device May Tell a Lot about
Supernovas, New Chair Appointed to NIST’s
MEP Advisory Board, Secretary Evans Appoints Three to Baldrige
Award Judges’ Panel
March
31, 2003
-- NIST,
HP Move Toward Critical Molecular Electronics Measurements, New
Report Details NIST Law Enforcement Activities, NIST Conference
to Showcase Latest in DVD Tech and Standards, NIST Researchers ‘Go
Dancing’ with Synchronized Lasers, NIST to Discontinue Its
Role in Satellite Time Dissemination, NIST Seeks Comments on Revised
Standards for Wood Panels
March
17, 2003
--
NIST Reports Significant Advances Made in Facial Recognition, NIST
Device Helps Ensure Gunlock Performance NIST, International Team
Develop Materials Data Exchange Language,
Interagency Effort Opens the ‘GATE’ on Manufacturing
R&D, NIST Guide to State/Local Accreditation Programs Updated,
Visiting Committee Praises NIST, Offers Recommendations
February
28, 2003
-- NIST
to Investigate Rhode Island Fire Under NCST, President Approves
FY 2003 Funds for NIST, N.Y. Adopts NIST-Developed ASTM Cigarette
Fire Test, New Web Site Showcases NISTs Big Efforts in Tiny
Technology, Gas and Liquid Wont Mix? New NIST Device May Be
the Answer, NIST Says: Hug a Weights and Measures Official
in March!
February
12, 2003
-- NIST
Says Dual ID System Needed to Protect U.S. Borders, NIST Helps Health
Care Industry Develop IT Security Standards, NIST Experiment's Data
Acquired Before Space Shuttle Tragedy, NIST Reaches Quarter-Volt
Output for Josephson Voltage Standard, Administration Seeks $496.8
Million for NIST in FY 2004, Levelt Sengers Selected for 2003 Women
in Science Award
January
27, 2003
-- ATP
Partner Thinks Big by Going Small with Nanotech Materials, Learn
from First Baldrige Health Care Recipient at March Conference, NIST,
UW Research May Lead to New Breast Cancer Detection Methods, March
Forum to Address Key Issues for Manufacturing Community, March Conference
to Address Challenges to Chipmakers, Team with NISTs Phan:
Pentagon Structure Limited 9-11 Damage, Satellite Measures Suns
True Power with NIST Help
January
13, 2003
-- Tiny
Cell-Based Chemical Detectors Have Protection Potential, Report
Highlights Best Ways to Talk Science to the Public, Baldrige Criteria
Challenge CEOs to Be Chief Ethical Officers, Fiberoptic
Link Transfers Clock Signals with Great Stability, Problems in Test
Method IDd by NIST Research, March Conference to Focus on
Cybersecurity Education, Training
December
16, 2002
-- WTC
Investigation Off to Solid Start, NIST Reports, New NIST Color Reference
More Than a Shade Improved, Whats the Buzz? Expanded BEES
Software Helps Builders Go Green, NIST Method Helps Find Water in
Industrial Phosphine Gas, NIST Study Shows Industries Taking a Big
STEP to Savings, NIST Offers a Non-Traditional UWB Antenna Measurement
Facility
November
25, 2002
-- 2002
Baldrige Award Honors Three, Including First in Health Care, NISTs
Gebbie Receives Service to America Medal, NIST Innovations to Improve
Industrial Temperature Measurement, Seventh Edition of Popular NIST
Refrigerant Database Released, NIST Research Papers: The Future
is Full of (Laser) Light, NEMI Recognizes NIST Contributions
to U.S. Electronics Success
November
12, 2002
-- NIST
Device Helps Industry Reach 'Weathering' Heights, New NIST Tool
Helps Small Businesses Protect IT Systems, Using Mitochondrial DNA
as a Cancer Biomarker, On the PATH to Improved Durability, Lower
Maintenance Costs, New NIST Guidelines to Help Protect Against Cyberattacks,
NIST Testing Helps Ensure Accurate Lasers for Surgery, Chips
October
21, 2002
-- ATP
Announces 40 New Awards for FY 2002, NIST Airflow Software Featured
in Smoke Management Guide, NRC Report Praises NIST Labs for Science,
Service and Staff, Help Wanted: Experts Needed for 2003 Baldrige
Award Applications, NIST Director: Streamlining Standards
Would Improve Security, Packing Junctions Improves Programmable
Voltage Standards
October
2, 2002
-- Law
Grants NIST New Authorities to Investigate Building Failures, Eleven
Organizations in Final Running for 2002 Baldrige Award, Four New
NIST Guides Help Counter Cyberattacks, NIST Researchers Open Door
for Making Cold Antihydrogen, NIST, MBDA Team Up to Assist Minority
Businesses, NIST Director Says ID Technologies Need Standardization
September
16, 2002
-- Double
Knock-Out Pigs Score TKO for ATP Project, Idaho Educator Learns
On the Job About Environmental Monitoring, Study Finds
NIST Gas Standards Yield Substantial Benefits, NIST Gets the Drop
on Fire Quenchers, NIST Research Finds Waveguide Lasers Offer Advantages
August
26, 2002
-- NIST Details Federal Investigation of WTC Disaster, Pervasive
Computing Conference Adds Health Care Track, NIST Image Library
to Help Improve Linewidth Measurements, 'Frustrated Magnets' Hint
at Nature's Powers of Organization, New NIST Reference Material
Benefits Users of Raman Spectrocopy
August
12, 2002
-- NIST
Seeks Comments on Guide Detailing Wireless Security Issues, Baldrige
Program Celebrates 15th Anniversary, NIST to Operate Deep Ultraviolet
Lithography Calibration Service, Noise-Temperature Service from
1 to 65 Gigahertz Available, NIST Develops Metrology for Extreme
Ultraviolet Lithography, Robots in Construction Conference to Showcase
Innovations
July
29, 2002
-- NIST-Led
Team Facilitates Search for New Microchip Materials, Quantum Dot
Isolation Provides Quantum Leap in Optical Engineering, ¿Estamos
Progresando? Baldrige Questionnaire Now en Español, Baldrige
Winners Go On the Road in October, Biometric Consortium Conference
to Showcase Latest ID Technologies, NIST Evaluates Ability of Models
to Predict Thin-Film Properties, New Phosphorus Dopant Reference
Materials Coming from NIST
July
15, 2002
-- OSTP
Report Praises NIST Neutron Center for World-Class Capabilities,
Dow R&D Executive Named to Visiting Committee, New e-Handbook
of Statistical Methods Available Online, New Interoperability Standard
Is Smart for Smart Cards, Baldrige, Six Sigma or ISO? Do You Have
to Choose One?, New Publication Explains NIST Computer Time Services
June
24, 2002
-- Design
Proposed for Large-Scale Quantum Computer, A Commitment to Innovation,
NIST Study: Software Bugs Take Huge Bite Out of Nation's Economy,
New Partnership, Workshops Focus on Small Biz IT Security, NIST
Develops Two New Wavelength Calibration Standards, NIST Odor Measurements
Help Reduce Threat from Leaking Gas
June
10, 2002
-- ATP
Announces 21 New Awards, New Members Named to Visiting Committee,
49 Organizations Apply for Nations Top Honor for Excellence,
Aw, Chuck It! NIST Offers New Innovation for EDM Equipment, New
NIST SIMS Device Makes Material Analysis Elemental,
NIST Leads Effort to Standardize Chemical ID Systems
May
28, 2002
--
Joint Optoelectronics Project Completes Seven Years of Success,
New Publication Documents International Welding Conference, New
Method Can Speed the Search for High-Tech Films, New Publication
Highlights Recent NIST Ion Trapping Research, NIST Researcher Named
One of the World's Top Young Innovators
May
13, 2002
-- More
Cold Neutrons on Tap at Upgraded NIST Center, Shopping Mall Burn
Examines Structural Vibrations, NIST Guides Help Defend Against
Cyberattacks, From A(mbiguity) to Z(ulu): New T&F Glossary Makes
It All Clear, Five from NIST Honored for Outstanding Government
Service, NIST CD Captures Lessons of Fatal Iowa Blaze, New Microwave
Measurement Method Aids Semiconductor Industry
April
29, 2002
-- What
a Deal! Evaluated Ceramics Data on the Web, 2001 Baldrige Award
Winners Applications Available, Weight Problems? Handbook
Hopes to Reduce Error with Carts, New Video, CD Feature
Latest Baldrige Formulas for Success, NIST to Evaluate
Facial Recognition Software Under Patriot Act, Five More Years of
Cooperation for NIST, Egyptian Counterpart
April
15, 2002
-- ATP
2002 Competition Announced; E-Proposals Acceptable, Study Says:
Role-Based Access Control Yields Big Benefits, June Conference to
Focus on State of the Art for DVD, NIST Reaffirms Commitment to
Cement Industry with Updated SRMs, Expert Panel Helps NIST Plan
for the Future, World's First Corn-to-Plastics Plant Opens
April
3, 2002
-- NIST,
FEMA Strengthen Disaster Response and Research Capabilities, NIST
Partners with Historically Black Colleges, Universities, Questionnaire
Helps Leaders Answer 'Are We Making Progress?', NIST Issues Updated
Time and Frequency Services Handbook, Being in the Right Place at
the Right Time ... Anytime, Thermodynamics Center Seeks More Reliable
Data
March
18, 2002
-- Baldrige
Winners Beat S&P 500 for Eighth Year, NIST Facilitates Development
of New Cancer Treatment, NIST, Stanford Researchers Make Magnets
Go Out-of-Order, Mehuron to Retire from ITL Director/NIST CIO Posts,
NIST Seeks End to a Problem of Large (and Small) Dimensions, NIST
Treatment for Gas Cylinders to Improve Emissions Testing, Accurate
Fluid Properties Vital for Future, Says NIST
February
25, 2002
-- Cool
Collaboration Focuses on Cell Membrane Research, Lean Operation
Helps Texas Firm Keep Up with Demand, Federal Use of Private-Sector
Standards Doubles, Free Software Evaluates Long-Term Costs of Energy
Savings, Precessional Switching in Magnetic Memory Devices Demonstrated,
Revised Handbook 133 Benefits Consumers and Businesses
February
11, 2002
-- Administration
Seeks $577.5 Million for NIST in FY 2003, Commerce Secretary Releases
Proposals for Improving the ATP, Are You Ready to Go for the Gold?
Baldrige Gold, That Is!, Critical Data Derived for Integrated Circuit
Manufacturing, NIST Leads Development of Broadband Standard, NISTs
Cahn to Receive Bower Award in April
January
22, 2002
-- Organ
Transplant Advance Results from ATP Project, Two NIST Researchers
Receive PECASE Honors, NIST Holds Series of Regional Small Business
Security Workshops, Josephson Synthesizer Circuit Demonstrated,
Learn From First Baldrige Education Recipients at April Conference,
Patent Issued for Purification Process for Liquefied Petroleum Gas
January
7, 2002
-- NIST-Evaluated
Tests Soon May Keep Tabs on Modified Corn, New NIST Web Site Works
for Secure E-Government, First Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation
Challenge Under Way, Award Manufacturer Gives Blue Ribbon to Rhode
Island MEP, Paper Traces History of Thermophysical Properties Symposium,
New Transfer Standards for Optical-Fiber Power Metrology Available
December
17, 2001
-- First
Three Education Recipients Highlight 2001 Baldrige Award, President
Approves FY 2002 Funds for NIST, Arden Bement Becomes the 12th NIST
Director, The Future of Bridge Design? Plastics Says
ATP Partner, AES Becomes Federal Standard for Encrypting Data, Small
Manufacturers: MEP Has Your Top 10 New Years Resolutions
November
13, 2001
-- NIST
to Launch Combinatorial Methods Center, NIST Scientists Named Fellows
of AAAS, First Report on Sublethal Effects of Smoke Available, NIST
Releases New U.S. Edition of International Guide, Proceedings Available
from IT Standards and Innovation Conference, New Publication Explores
Challenges to Thermophysical Researchers
October
29, 2001
-- Study
Shows $25 Billion in U.S. Economic Benefits from Baldrige, Apply
for Baldrige Award, Get Guaranteed Seat on Board of Examiners, Hurry
Please, Says BEES Please, to Be in the Software, New Publication
Details Optoelectronics Work at NIST, Partnership Validates Smart
Card Security Requirements, Two New Members Named to Visiting Committee
October
15, 2001
-- Cornell
and Wieman Win 2001 Physics Prize, Thirteen Organizations in Final
Running for 2001 Baldrige Award, NIST Launches New Information Technology
Security Effort, Texas Educator Learning and Teaching
in Baldrige Office, Biomedical Devices: Globally Accepted Standards
Needed, New Service Alerts U.S. Exporters to Pending Foreign Regulations
September
24, 2001
-- Two
Organizations to Provide MEP Services in Alaska, Nevada, Mountain
Products Is Climbing High with NIST MEP Help, Designer Polymers
to Aid Recycling, NIST Floor Burn Experiments Could Aid Investigators,
China Looks at NIST-Facilitated Broadband Wireless Access Standards,
Two NIST Projects Honored as Among 100 Best Technologies
September
4, 2001
-- New
Spectroscopy Tool Probes Semiconductor Etching Processes, NIST Tuning
Up Technical Assistance to Automotive Sector, Working in the Trenches:
NIST Models Superfilling, Help Wanted: Experts to Review
Baldrige Award Applications for 2002, October Workshop to Bring
Home the Network, New Standards Experts in South America,
Middle East
August
22, 2001
-- U.S.
Economy Reaps Benefits of Josephson Volt Standard: Baldrige Criteria,
Good to Go for 2002, ATP Pilot Tests Electronic Submission of Proposals,
NIST Assesses Accuracy of Thin Film Dimensions, JILA Receives $15
Million Grant from NSF, Neutron Probes Focus the Search for Insulators
August
6, 2001
-- Something
New Under the Sun: Energy Walls, Upcoming Conference to Explore
Biometric Technology, Proceedings from In Vitro Diagnostics
Workshop Now Available, MEP Plans to Develop e-Business Testbed
for Small Manufacturers, Fourth Annual E-Book Conference Planned
for November, Pipe Dreams Become Reality for Oil and Gas Industry
July
23, 2001
-- New
Atomic Clock Could Be 1,000 Times Better Than Todays Best,
NIST Offers Online Metrology Resource for Electronics Manufacturers,
Using Baldrige Criteria as Tool to Hire, Keep Top Employees, New
Reference Material Simplifies SEM Performance Checks, ATP Partners
Putting a Spring in Their Steppers, Joint Research Center Planned
for Nonlinear Electronics
July
9, 2001
-- NIST Uncovers Potential Problem for Semiconductor Lithography,
NIST Seeks Comments on Security Risk Management Guide, NIST Smooths
Transition to Safe, Energy-Efficient Refrigeration,
Project on Corn-Derived Polymers Wins R&D Award, New Security
Standard for Federal Agencies Effective in November, Brochure Shows
NIST Research, Services Benefit Data Storage Efforts
June
26, 2001
-- Fall Conference to Showcase New Cases for Charters of Freedom,
New Division to Explore Magnetic Technology, NIST Forms Team to
Tackle Inspection Software Problems, Work Well Under Way on World's
Premier Measurement Lab, Got a Minute? NIST Wants Your Views on
Time Services, New Members Named to Visiting Committee
June
12, 2001
--
NIST Workshop Looks at E-Commerce Consumer Issues, NIST and Partners
Help Blaze the Path to Metatopia, New Online Newsletter Links Researchers
and Firefighters, NIST Launches Series of Guides to EU Directives,
November Conference Tackles Text Retrieval Systems, Thirty-Seven
Try for Nation's Top Honor for Excellence
May
29, 2001
-- Cooperative
Research Brightens Future of Fiber-Optic Networks, Ferris Wheel
Maker Gets on MEP Ride to Productivity, New International Standards
Activity in Polymer Mass Spectrometry, Grant Will Help Advance National
Standards Strategy, NIST Says 'More Attention Must Be Paid to Repair
Welds'
May
14, 2001
-- Wanted:
Measurements with Good References, New Online Pages Guide Industry
to Sector-Specific NIST Services, New NIST Practice Guide on Rockwell
Hardness Testing Available, Want Skills in Neutron Spectroscopy?
Go to Summer School!, Semiconductor Labs Put New NIST Software Through
Its Paces, New Publication Showcases Key NIST Research Achievements
April
30, 2001
-- E-Baldrige
Can Help Assess, Improve Your Organization, New Video, CD Spotlight
Strategies of 2000 Baldrige Recipients, June Symposium Showcases
Interactive Digital TV, Microtester 'Stresses' Electronic Packaging,
Data Exchange Standards Advance, History of Pioneering NIST Facility
Chronicled
April
16, 2001
-- Administration
Seeks $496 Million for TA in FY 2002, Funds for Innovative IT Infrastructure
Protection Technologies Available, 'Baldrige Index' Once Again Outperforms
S&P 500, NIST Takes Over as MPEG Web Site Host, June Workshop Examines
Draft Language for Materials Data Exchange, Group Wants to Make
'E-B' as Easy as 'A-B-C'
April
2, 2001
--
May Conference Seeks IT Access for All, Maryland Center Keeps Tube
Maker from Spiraling Out of Control, Practice Guide on Particle
Size Characterization Now Available, Paper Traces History of NIST
Refrigerants Program, New Excimer Laser Measurement Service Available,
Anderson to Head Electronics and Electrical Engineering Lab
March
19, 2001
-- NIST
Seeks Proposals for Manufacturing Centers in Five States, At May
Conference, The 'P' in PC Stands for 'Pervasive', Pennsylvania MEP
Helps FSI Products 'Think Big', Murdock Slated To Be Next NCWM Chair,
NIST Fellow Elected to National Academy of Engineering, Paper Describes
NIST Support for Optical Fiber Industry
March
5, 2001
-- NIST
Seeks Final Comments on Advanced Encryption Standard, NIST Proves
You Can Go Home (page) Again, Revamped NIST Division Dedicates Itself
to Fewer Fire Losses, New Members Named to MEP Advisory Board, Define
the Universe on a Wallet-Sized Card, Bibliographies of Electronics-Related
Work Now Available
February
20, 2001
-- Survey Says: Centers Help Improve Competitiveness, Productivity,
European Directive on Medical Testing Demands Traceability, NIST
Assesses Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette for FTC, Virtual
Lab Consortium to Test Concrete and Cement Formulas, Two NIST-Funded
Experiments Testing Fundamentals of Reality, Reports Praise NIST
for 2000 Accomplishments
February
5, 2001
-- New Technique for Blending Polymers Yields Novel Structures,
Sutherland Officially Named as Boulder Labs Director, New Tool for
Identifying Vulnerabilities Up and Running, NIST Finds Agencies
Relying More Heavily on Private Sector, Baldrige Criteria Can Help
Assess, Improve ... and Go for the Gold, March Symposium Sizes Up
the Past, Future of Standards
January
22, 2001 -- Project in Integrated Optoelectronic Manufacturing
a Success, New Version of Charpy Machine Guide Is Now Available,
U.S., EU Implement Agreement to Reduce Trade Barriers, Short Course
on Radiation Thermometer Measurement Offered, SET for Fundamental
Measurements in Electricity Explained, Competitions Open for 13
Research Funding Opportunities
January
8, 2001 -- President Approves FY 2001 Appropriations for
NIST, Kammer Retires as NIST Director, Process-Improved ATP Competition
Under Way for 2001, Just a Phase? Better Neutron Analysis with Lower
Radiation, NIST, ANSI Reaffirm Partnership for U.S. Standards Success,
NIST/Industry Consortium to Tackle Complex Polymer Interphases
December
4, 2000 -- Keeping
Tabs on the Site with Laser Light, April Conference to Showcase
2000 Baldrige Recipients, Polish Up Your Gloss Measurements at NIST,
Tests Certify 'Smart' Building Products, Indiana MEP Center Helps
Sales of Copter Parts Soar, New Book, Web Site Can Help Media Feature
NIST at 100
November
21, 2000 -- Four U.S. Firms Recognized for Quality
and Business Excellence, Here's Looking at Digital Cinema, Kid,
TRC: Déjà vu All Over Again, Government Team Addresses Nation's
Aging Wire Systems, New 'Recognition Arrangement' Could Lower Export
Barriers, Fourth Revision of Body Armor Standard Issued
November
6, 2000 --
NIST Joins the National Particulate Matter Research Program, Two
NIST Boulder Researchers Honored as PECASE Recipients, NIST, Partners
Seek Smooth Sailing for Shipyard Processes, All About SQUID ...
and Their Father, Looking for a Quality-System Registrar?, Video
Shows Small Businesses Are Big on Baldrige
October
23, 2000 --
And the Emmy Goes to ... a NIST ATP Partner!, Debut Set for Complex
Computing 'All for One' Standard, Cool Site Yields Hot Data on Heat
Transmission, Refined Procedures Improve Refrigeration Properties
Research, Atomic Clock Among Popular Science's 'Best of What's New',
Egyptian Professor Is NIST's First SESAME Seed, 'Full of Hot Air'
Takes on New Meaning at NIST
October
10, 2000 --
Belgian Formula Wins Competition to Become Encryption Standard,
ATP Launches 54 High-Impact R&D Projects, New Reader Soon May Give
the Blind Access to E-Books, Two Maryland Firms Team to Construct
State-of-the-Art Lab, New Calibration Service for High-Power Laser
Detectors, Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements Chronicled
September
25, 2000 --
Nine Organizations in Final Running for Top Quality Honor Are You
Keeping Pace with the Global Economy?, Aeronautics Firm Gets in
STEP with Streamlined Data Exchange, Improved 'Vision Using Sound'
System Wins R&D 100 Honor, NIST Pioneers the Use of Image Plates
for Far UV Spectroscopy, MEP Helps Makes Success an Equal Opportunity
Result
September
11, 2000 -- NIST Helps Manufacturers Prepare for Conversion
to Lead-Free Solder, Last Chance to Sign Up for Cyber Security Conference,
Collaboration to Yield Big Dividends to the Construction Industry,
New Measurement Service for Relative Intensity Noise of Lasers,
National Standards Strategy Approved, Baut Studios Says 'Hallelujah'
for Help from Penn MEP Center
August
28, 2000 -- NIST, Robotics Industry Seek a More 'Open'
Relationship, Wanted: Baldrige Award Examiners for 2001, Proposals
Sought for Precision Measurement Grants, Software Evaluation Expedites
Incredible Shrinking of Transistors, NIST Lab, German Counterpart
Team to Develop Reference Materials
August
14, 2000 -- Read All About It! September Conference
to Showcase E-Books, Missouri Center Helps Entrepreneur Tee Off
New Product, New VAMAS Group Seeks Measurement Specs for Ceramic
Powders, New Paper Explains Calibration Service for Excimer Lasers,
International Agreement Keeps Partners True to Their MISSION, New
Publication Discusses Computer Technology in Welding
July
31, 2000 -- Tissue-Engineering Project Creates First
'Artificial Thymus', New Software Mainstreams Air Quality Design
Innovation, Biometric Conference to ID Major Issues, Advances, Entrepreneurs:
Is There Life after ATP?, Taking the Temperature of Rapid Thermal
Processing Systems, Measurement Gaps May 'Undercharge' Deregulation
Benefits
July
17, 2000 -- Burning
Mattresses Yield a Safer Night's Sleep for All, NIST Can Help Your
Computer Speak Fluent XML, Workshop Seeks More Open European Market
for Lab, Diagnostic Tests, What's the Buzz? New BEES Build Better
Buildings, Using Ferroelectric Materials for Microwave Electronics,
September Symposium Plans (Optical) Fiber-Rich Menu
July
3, 2000 --
Workshop Tells Industry: It's Either First or Worst, New NIST Web
Site Tells All About Hall, Grants Put Housing Innovations on the
PATH to Reality, One Hundred Certificates and Counting for Testing
Program, Probing Nanoscale Pores to Understand Membrane Physics,
Jackson Leaves NIST; Bloom Acting Director of MEL, FQA Final Rule
Published; Hotline and Declaration Forms Available
June
19, 2000 --
49 Organizations Try for Nation's Top Honor for Excellence, Software
Gives Firefighters Computerized View of Deadly Blaze, Ground Broken
for World's Premier Metrology Research Lab, Grant to ANSI to Strengthen
U.S. Participation in ISO, IEC, New Publication Helps Find State
Programs for Tech Growth, New Noise Measurement System Now in Service
at NIST, Two from NIST Honored for Government Service
June
5, 2000 -- Thirteen
Is Lucky Number for International Cooperation, Commerce, Partners
Ensure That E-Business, Is Timely Business Partnership Proposed
to Reduce Duplication, New MEMS Facility Opens in Boulder, New Standard
to Help Advance Parallel Computing, Agreement Streamlines Telecommunications
Product Approvals
May
22, 2000 -- Baldrige
Program for Education Getting Broad Support, New Video Highlights
ATP Role in Technology Innovation, Industry Gives 'Seal' of Approval
to Remote Weld Monitoring, EU Approach to Standards Explained in
New NIST Guide, Charpy Machine Operation and Maintenance Is Easier
by the Book, U.S., Korea Sign Agreement to Enhance Trade and Commerce
May
8, 2000 -- Project
to Turn Corn Sugar into Polymers Is a Sweet Success, NIST's Cornell
Elected to National Academy of Sciences, NIST Grantee Makes Best
Ever Measure of 'Big G', June Conference Seeks Industry Success
Through Better Metrology, New Members Named to Baldrige Award Panel
of Judges, Predicting Non-linear Effects in Superconducting Transmissions
April
24, 2000 -- Balutis Named to Head Second Decade of
Success for ATP, Domich to Oversee Boulder Labs, Looking for Ceramics
Info? Click Open the NIST Ceramics WebBook, NIST Plays Major Role
in New Steam Tables Book, June Conference Explores IT Applications
and Integration, Two NIST Researchers Receive Recognition for Scientific
Leadership
April
10, 2000 -- ATP-Derived Software Powers New 'DTV-in-a-Box'
for Broadcasters, Brochure Can Get Your Quality Journey on the Road,
New Video, CD Spotlight Strategies of 1999 Baldrige Recipients,
GE Recognizes ATP for Helping Achieve All-Digital Mammography, Conference
to Open National Dialogue on Combinatorial Methods, Weights and
Measures Documents Now Available on the Internet
March
27, 2000 -- Oh, What a Tangled Web These Particles
Weave!, MEP Helps Small Firms Get Leaner, Cleaner and More Productive,
Carbon-Copy Pigs Are Latest Milestone in Organ Transplant Research,
NIST Helps Develop Some of World's Coldest Refrigerators, Kayser,
Mehuron to Head Tech Services, Information Tech Units
March
13, 2000 -- NIST Sulfur Standards Reap Big Benefits
for Industry, Environment, Boulder Lab Director to Take Position
at Harvard, Information on Weld Ferrite Standards Now Available,
Common Scale Established for All of North America, NIST Names New
Members to MEP Advisory Board, Straub Slated to be Next Chairman
of the NCWM, Two NIST Scientists Elected to National Academy of
Engineering
Feb.
28, 2000 -- 2000 Criteria Now Available; New Competition
Begins, 'Baldrige Index' Outperforms S&P 500 by Almost 5 to 1, Upgraded
System Means Better Data, Lower Costs for Buildings, Digital Signature
Standard Now Includes More Choices, May Conference to Teach Effective
Use of Common Criteria
Feb.
14, 2000 -- Administration Seeks $722 Million for TA
in FY 2001, Worldwide Competition for Data Encoding Standard Nears
End, What's Up, Docs? Find Out at Upcoming Conference, New Registry
Seeks End to Naming Conflicts, NIST Issues New Standard for Mitochondrial
DNA Sequencing
Jan.
31, 2000 -- NIST Research Seeks Advances in Pervasive
Computing, NIST Leads the Way in Optical Fiber Measurements, Louisiana
Center Helps Package Success for Gift Company, Optical Fiber Power
Measurements Explained, NIST Passes 900 CRADA Mark, Releases FY
99 Stats, New Members Named to Visiting Committee; Manuel Becomes
Chair
Jan.
18, 2000 -- NIST Radio Station Now Transmitting at
Full Power, Institute to Protect America's Cyberspace Proposed for
NIST, New ATP Advisory Committee to Hold First Meeting, New NIST
Effort Seeks to Improve Utility of Property Data, New Features for
the ATP Alliance Network Site, Two Labs Share Honor for Materials
Testing Software
Jan.
3, 2000-- Got a Second? Nothing Counts Them Better
Than New NIST Clock, Kaleidoscope Is Model for Optical Tunnel-Trap
Detector, Housing Technology Grants Now Available from PATH, NIST
Physicists Develop New Tool to Validate Protein Modeling, 'Return
of the Cryogenics Database' Now Playing at NIST
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