NIST - Information Technology

1. NIST 2022 Cybersecurity & Privacy Annual Report

   This week, NIST released the newly redesigned and streamlined Special Publication 800-225, Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Cybersecurity and Privacy Annual Report. In FY 2022, the NIST Information Technology Laboratory’s (ITL) Cybersecurity and Privacy Program

2. NIST Conducting Automated Vehicle Workshop, September 5-8, 2023

   NIST will hold a virtual workshop on Standards and Performance Metrics for On-Road Automated Vehicles (AV), September 5-8, 2023. Free registration and schedule are available online. The workshop aims to: Connect the AV community Provide a holistic

3. 6G “Mailbox Theory” by NIST, University Researchers Receives Best Paper Award

   In late April 2023, Big Data and Cognitive Computing Journal awarded the 2021 Best Paper to 6G Cognitive Information Theory: A Mailbox Perspective, which was authored by NIST’s Hamid Gharavi and University researchers. The paper proposes the “mailbox

4. NIST, Intel Researchers Win Best Paper at IEEE’s Factory Communications Systems Conference

   NIST and Intel researchers were awarded best paper at the 19th IEEE International Conference on Factory Communications Systems (WFCS 2023), in April 2023. The paper is titled, “Scheduling for Time-Critical Applications Utilizing Transmission Control

5. NIST Staff Organize, Chair, and Present in Session on Industrial Wireless at IEEE Conference

   NIST’s Industrial Wireless Systems project leader Rick Candell, and associate Kang Lee, attended the 19th IEEE International Conference on Factory Communications Systems (WFCS), April 26-28, 2023, in Pavia, Italy. The team organized and conducted a

6. Creating and Reusing IoT Services – NIST, University Researchers Offer Solutions

   Researchers and city planners have faced problems and many unanswered questions in developing and reusing Internet of Things’ services. To aid these initiatives, NIST and university researchers reviewed different solutions proposed in literature for

7. University, NIST Researchers Develop Supply Chain Model Using NIST CPS Framework

   After supply chain disruptions in the COVID-19 pandemic, NIST and university researchers teamed up with private sector experts to explore methods for making supply chains more resilient to radical changes in demand. Their efforts resulted in a new

8. NIST Researchers Demonstrate Improved Way of Training Distributed Digital Devices

   Distributed digital devices – such as smart phones and more – are updated and trained by means of “Federated Learning.” Basically, it involves a central server sharing a training model with selected devices. Each device updates the model with its

9. NIST Leader Addresses Automated Vehicles’ Communications Needs at Conference

   In a “fireside chat” at the Connected Vehicles USA 2023 conference, NIST’s Transformational Networks and Services Group Leader Tao Zhang discussed future communications needs for automated vehicles. The discussion was moderated by Scott McCormick

10. Moving Toward Autonomous Systems – NIST Leader Offers Vision in University Presentation

    Today, automated systems can operate without human intervention and are increasingly being developed and deployed. In a presentation at the University of Delaware, NIST Transformative Networks and Services Group Leader, Tao Zhang, provided a vision