Agreement Between U.S. and Japan Spawns Innovative International Optoelectronics Program for Computing

News Release: To enhance trade between the United States and Ukraine, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the State Committee of Ukraine for Standardization, Metrology, and Certification (DERJSTANDART) have signed a memorandum of understanding on scientific and technical cooperation to remove non-tariff trade barriers between the two countries.

News Release: A newly expanded database on crystal growth conditions of biological macromolecules is now available to help structural biology programs of the pharmaceutical and food industries improve medicines, vaccines, food products and other industrial processes.

News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking quality experts from all sectors of American business, as well as from non-profit health care and education organizations, to serve on the 1995 Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

News Release: The draft paper by Matt Blaze* describes several techniques aimed at circumventing law enforcement access to key escrowed encryption products based on government-developed technologies.

News Release: In colonial times, lamp makers relied on whale oil-based candles as a standard measure of light. Today, a new "electronic eye" developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is giving the lighting industry its most accurate measure of brightness ever.

News Release: The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology now will accept applications from calibration laboratories seeking accreditation to perform calibration services based on compatibility with international standards.

News Release: "I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark." - Thomas Hobbes, last words

News Release: The 79th Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures, July 17-21, 1994, in San Diego, Calif., will feature a special technical session on price verification in retail food stores as well as other issues important to consumers, retailers, distributors and manufacturers to maintain equity in the nation's marketplace. NCWM is sponsored by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology.

News Release: The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced approval of a Digital Signature Standard, which will allow federal agencies, businesses and private individuals to verify the integrity of electronic data, such as files or electronic mail messages, and the signer's identity. It applies to all federal departments, agencies and their contractors for the protection of unclassified information when digital signatures are required.

News Release: Government and construction industry officials today dedicated a new facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help improve the quality of construction materials testing.

News Release: Weights and measures officials in the United States and Canada have agreed to mutual recognition of test results and examinations of weighing and measuring devices by the U.S. National Type Evaluation Program of the National Conference on Weights and Measures and the Legal Metrology Branch of Industry Canada. NCWM is sponsored by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology.

News Release: Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown today released for public comment a report that focuses on ways that the National Information Infrastructure can be used to strengthen the U.S. economy and improve quality of life. As an interconnection of computer networks, telecommunications services and applications, the NII has the potential to significantly improve the way people use information in their jobs and other aspects of their daily lives.

News Release: A government-developed technology to protect the security of telephone conversations and other information communicated over telephone lines is meant to be used by both the government and the private sector on a strictly voluntary, as-needed basis -- and is not intended to be mandated in the future, a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) official said today in congressional testimony.

News Release: The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the National Center for Metrology (Centro Nacional de Metrologia-CENAM) and the Director General for Standards (Direccion General de Normas-DGN) of Mexico have signed memorandums of understanding to establish two organizations: NORAMET and the North American Calibration Cooperation (NACC).

News Release: U.S. and Russian participants at the third meeting of the Intergovernmental U.S./Russian Business Development Committee's Standards Working Group in Moscow, May 24-25, 1994, will define areas of mutual interest in automotive products, telecommunications equipment, pharmaceuticals and medical devices for the acceptance of conformity assessment measures between the two countries to promote international trade.