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Quantum clock

Both the aluminum-based quantum clock and the mercury-based atomic clock keep track of time from the ion vibration at an optical frequency by using a UV laser, that is 100,000 times higher than the microwave frequencies used in NIST-F1 and other similar time standards around the world.


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4D-RCS Reference Model Architecture

4D/RCS integrates the NIST Real-time Control System (RCS) architecture with the German (Bundeswehr University of Munich) VaMoRs 4-D approach to dynamic machine vision.

Anthony E. Siegman

He was a member of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board during 1974-80 and served on advisory groups for NBS, NIST, NSF and other government agencies.

Belarc

The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of installed software and hardware, missing security patches, anti-virus status, and NIST SCAP security configurations (USGCB, FDCC) and displays the results in a Web browser.

Bill Proenza

Lautenbacher requested that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) form an independent "management assessment team" which would travel to the National Hurricane Center and evaluate the management situation.

Custody transfer

Custody transfer metering systems must meet requirements set by industry bodies such as AGA, API, or ISO, and national metrology standards such as OIML (International), NIST (U.S.), PTB (Germany), CMC (China), and GOST (Russia), among others.

Email management

At that time, the Executive Office of the President of the United States, in conjunction with NIST, was looking for ways to automatically categorize the growing volume of inbound email that President Bill Clinton was receiving.

Hans Neusidler

Hans Neusidler (also Neusiedler, Newsidler) (c. 1508-09 – February 2, 1563), was a German composer and lutenist of the Renaissance.

Harold J. Raveché

Following his PhD work at UCSD, Raveché was awarded a research fellowship working with Melville S. Green at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and then accepted a research chemist position.

IGES

USAF accepted this offer and contracted NIST to bring together a group of users and vendors, including Boeing, General Electric, Xerox, Computervision, Applicon and others to further develop and test this software.

Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection

Funding for the I3P has come from various sources, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Joachim Thibault de Courville

Joachim Thibault de Courville (died 1581) was a French composer, singer, lutenist, and player of the lyre, of the late Renaissance.

Ken Manheimer

Ken Manheimer has been a prominent software developer of Zope and GNU Mailman who worked for NIST, CNRI, Digital Creations and Zope Corporation.

National Construction Safety Team Act

It provides the NIST with the responsibilities and authorities modeled on those of the National Transportation Safety Board, except for the investigation of building failures instead of aircraft accidents.

Nicholas Lanier

Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere (baptised at Greenwich 10 September 1588 – 24 February 1666) was an English composer, singer, lutenist and painter.

Norman Hammond

Norman Hammond (born 1944) is a British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar, noted for his publications and research on the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.

Randomness extractor

NIST Special Publication 800-90B (draft) recommends several extractors, including the SHA hash family and states that if the amount of entropy input is twice the number of bits output from them, that output can be considered essentially fully random.

Software independence

The term "software independence" (SI) was coined by Dr. Ron Rivest and NIST researcher John Wack.

Toxin and Toxin-Target Database

The various sources include the scientific literature, books, government documents, and numerous external databases (such as PubChem, UniProt, PubMed, DrugBank, Human Metabolome Database (HMDB), NIST Chemistry WebBook, KEGG, NCI Database Browser, PharmGKB, Food and Drug Administration, ChEBI, and ChemExper).

Ward Plummer

Plummer accepted a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Bureau of Standards now called The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the fall of 1967 working with Russ Young, and he stayed as a staff scientist until the fall of 1973.


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