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Thank you to everyone who participated in the Cyber AI Profile Workshop NIST hosted this past April! This work intends to support the cybersecurity and AI communities — and the input you provided during this workshop is critical. We are working to publish a Workshop Summary that captures themes and highlights from the event. In the interim, we would like to share a preview of what we heard.Background on the Cyber AI Profile Workshop (watch the workshop introduction video)As NIST began exploring the idea of a Cyber AI Profile and writing the Cybersecurity and AI Workshop Concept Paper leading up to…
The International Space Station Credit: NASA Wrapped snugly in a custom container, seven carefully chosen materials left Earth on Aug. 24, 2025, traveling at 17,500 mph. Nestled at the top of a Falcon 9 rocket, house dust, freeze-dried human liver and cholesterol joined four other scientific specimens to travel to the International Space Station (ISS). Called reference materials, these thoroughly studied samples serve important roles on Earth — and now beyond. These reference materials will play a critical role in understanding the effects of outer space on everyday objects as space becomes a place where people live, conduct research and…
Credit: M. King/NIST When you go to a medical appointment, does the doctor look at you while you talk? Or are they busy typing everything you say into a computer? If it’s the latter, you may find it will change soon, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI).Some doctors’ offices are using AI transcription services to transcribe your discussion with the doctor and automatically enter the results into your electronic medical records.That’s a time-saver for doctors, who often spend hours filling out their patients’ records. It also allows them to look at the patient rather than their computer screen.You may have also…
In a blog last week, I provided a multitude of reasons to apply to be a 2025 Baldrige examiner®. The benefits of serving in this volunteer role were conveyed by three highly experienced Baldrige examiners with career expertise from the business, K-12 education, and health care sectors. Each served as evaluation team leaders both in previous years and in the revamped process launched in 2024. But wait: there are more reasons to apply to be a Baldrige examiner®! Consider what two other highly experienced examiners—this time with backgrounds in higher education and nonprofit and government organizations, respectively—recently conveyed about the value…
Members of the Material Flammability Characterization Project recently presented or co-authored a series papers at the 16th International Conference and Exhibition on fire science and engineering (Interflam 2025, UK), the Flame Retardancy of Polymeric Materials conference (FRPM25, Spain) and the US National Combustion Meeting (Boston, MA).These talks describe new experimental tools and analytical techniques that support both the Material Flammability Characterization and Functional Barriers for Low-Flammability Products projects. These talks highlighted a range of topics including:ASTM E3367: Conception and Development of a New Standard Test based on Cone CalorimetryEvaluating Variability in the Fire Behavior of multiple version of commercially available…
Credit: NIST Today is the day! Digital Identity Guidelines, Revision 4 is finally here…it’s been an exciting journey and NIST is honored to be a part of it. What can we expect?Serving as a culmination of a nearly four-year collaborative process that included foundational research, two public drafts, and about 6,000 individual comments from the public, Revision 4 of Special Publication 800-63, Digital Identity Guidelines, intends to respond to the changing digital landscape that has emerged since the last major revision of this suite, published in 2017. The guidelines presented in Revision 4 explain the process and technical requirements for meeting digital identity…
Credit: iStock/gorodenkoff This blog is the first in a four-part series on the beginner’s guide to Industrial Artificial Intelligence applications.Welcome knowledge seeker! Do you feel dazzled and awed by the great potential of Artificial Intelligence aka AI? Perhaps hesitant or lost when words like ‘convolution,’ ‘deep learning,’ or ‘autoencoder’ are thrown around? Well, fear not, friend, for you have come to just the right place! You don’t need to be a computer wizard or a super genius to understand how using AI can impact your system and, more importantly, if using it is worth the investment.This is a multi-part series…
For the past decade, Taking Measure has told the stories behind the groundbreaking research we do at NIST. Our goal has been twofold: Present NIST’s science and research in a way that anyone can understand and appreciate, regardless of their background. Give our researchers a forum to tell their stories.When Taking Measure launched on Jan. 14, 2016, then-NIST Director Willie May wrote in the inaugural post: “Through this blog, we’d like to share with you our excitement and passion for the work we do. I hope we can answer some of your questions about science and technology, and about why we do…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released NIR-SORT 2.0, a major technical expansion of its spectroscopic fabric characterization dataset. This update provides high-fidelity “molecular fingerprints” essential for the development, benchmarking, and validation of classification models used in automated textile identification systems. Near Infrared Spectra of Origin-defined and Real-world Textiles (NIR-SORT) 2.0 is available for download from the NIST Public Data Repository and also through the Materials Data Framework.Open-Source, Machine-Readable DataThe identification of fiber content in collected textiles often relies on Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, a rapid and non-invasive technique that detects chemical bond structures. Because NIR spectra…
Tucker Bryant is a Stanford-educated poet and entrepreneur. He’s also a former employee of technology behemoth Google, where he used his creative perspective to be an innovator. At the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program’s 36th Quest for Excellence® Conference this spring, Bryant will share his unique insights about innovation for the benefit of work in any sector.Following is an exchange I recently had with Bryant as I sought to learn more about his planned keynote presentation for the upcoming Baldrige conference.Let’s start with the obvious: most people probably don’t think of a high-tech business like Google as being an ideal career fit for…