Kelly Sauerwein is a physical scientist with the Special Programs Office at NIST. Credit: M. King/NIST As a person who studies how bodies decompose, I think a…

NIST researcher Susana Deustua works on a telescope.  Credit: M. King/NIST Many of modern astronomy’s achievements can be traced back to relatively unknown women who painstakingly cataloged…

Credit: BIPM/NIST The modern metric system — known as the International System of Units, or SI — is a model of consistency and logic. But in some…

Actor Ryan Gosling plays a science teacher in Project Hail Mary. Credit: Shutterstock/lev radin Let’s be honest here. If you’re a scientist — or, in our case,…

Credit: NIST On March 23, 1916, officials and citizens gathered in Washington, D.C., to celebrate a new era in the nation’s ability to measure. Secretary of Commerce William…

Authored by Drew Keller, Ryan Steed, Stevie Bergman, and the Applied Systems Team at CAISIBuilding gold-standard AI systems requires gold-standard AI measurement science – the scientific study…

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Artificial Intelligence (Cyber AI Profile) Workshop in January! The input we received on the Preliminary…

By Maia Hamin and Benjamin EdelmanAI evaluations are designed to assess and compare how AI models perform on different tasks. Developers, users, and independent evaluators — like…