On Jan 4 President Obama signed the "America COMPETES Reauthorization Act
of 2010." It is many pages long, but says nothing that I have been able to
find
on the importance of metrication for US industry. It discusses STEM (science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics) at great length, but virtually
nothing about metrication! Can you find anything about SI?
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*January 5, 2011*
*Reauthorization of COMPETES Act Brings Changes to NIST* [
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20110105.cfm#competes ]
On Jan. 4, President Obama signed the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of
2010, which provides several important updates to NIST funding, programs and
leadership.
[Thumbnail image] *NIST Appoints Associate Director for Innovation and
Industry Services* [
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20110105.cfm#adii ]
NIST announced today that Phillip Singerman has been appointed to the newly
created position of Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services.
Singerman will lead NIST's suite of external partnership programs including the
Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, the Technology Innovation Program
and the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.
[Thumbnail image] *Extracting Cellular 'Engines' May Aid in Understanding
Mitochondrial Diseases* [
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20110105.cfm#mito ]
Medical researchers who crave a means of exploring the genetic culprits behind
a host of neuromuscular disorders may have just had their wish granted by a
NIST team that has performed surgery on single cells to extract and examine
their mitochondria.
*And Then There Were Five: Finalists Advance in NIST's SHA-3 Cryptography
Competition* [ http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20110105.cfm#sha3
]
Out of the original 64, there now are five candidates left in the ongoing
multi-year competition to create the next 'hash' algorithm to protect the
integrity of electronic information.
[Thumbnail image] *NIST Telescope Calibration May Help Explain Mystery of
Universe's Expansion* [
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20110105.cfm#telescope ]
Is the expansion of the universe accelerating for some unknown reason? A
telescope newly calibrated by scientists from NIST, Harvard University and the
University of Hawaii, astrophysicists can be more certain of one day obtaining
an accurate answer.
*IPv6 Guide Provides Path to Secure Deployment of Next-Generation Internet
Protocol* [ http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20110105.cfm#ipv6 ]
As the day draws nearer for the world to run out of the unique addresses that
allow us to use the Internet researchers at NIST have issued a guide for
managers, network engineers, transition teams and others to help them deploy
the next generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) securely.
*Two Publications Recommend Organization-Wide IT Security Risk Management* [
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20110105.cfm#csd ]
Two new draft publications from NIST provide the groundwork for a three-tiered
risk-management approach that encompasses computer security risk planning from
the highest levels of management to the systems level. The draft documents have
been released for public comment.
[Thumbnail image] *New Time Widget Puts Accurate Clocks on Web Pages* [
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20110105.cfm#time ]
For Web site owners and bloggers, there is a new widget from NIST that will
keep your Web pages right on time.
*NIST Work Highlighted as Top Science News of 2010* [
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20110105.cfm#top ]
The top science news of 2010, as compiled by several science magazines,
includes several stories from NIST.
*Three From NIST Elected Fellows of American Physical Society* [
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20110105.cfm#aps ]
Three scientists at NIST were elected as 2010 fellows of the American Physical
Society (APS), an honor bestowed upon association members by their peers.
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