Technical Accomplishments

Technical Accomplishments

INST. OF STAND & TECH 1110b EEfiHbS TECHNICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS no. 6558 2000 National Institute of Standards and Technology Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce Information Technology Laboratory NISTIR 6558 Information Technology Laboratory William 0. Mehuron Director Susan F. Zevin Deputy Director L _ Office of Associate Director Special Advisor for for Computing Computing Security Operations Office of Assistant Director Associate Director for for Boulder Program Implementation Office of Associate Director for Executive Federal and Industrial Relations Office Software Mathematical and I High Performance 1 fj Computer Diagnostics and Computational Systems and Security 1 1 Conformance Sciences U M Services LliJ Testing Advanced Distributed Computing and NetWork Information Technologies Services NISTIR 6558 October 2000 CONTENTS Director's Foreword 1 ITL at a Glance 3 Technical Accomplishments 6 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary Industry Interactions 30 Technology Administration International Activities 37 Dr. Cheryl L. Shavers Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology Staff Recognition 39 National Institute of Standards and Technology Service to NIST 42 Raymond G. Kammer, Director Director's Foreword ; SEPTEMBER 30, 2000 he Information Technology Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - Laboratory (ITL) is one of the ITL completed the three-year public T Measurement and Standards competition. Secretary Mineta Laboratories of the National Institute announced the winner, Rijndael, and of Standards and Technology (NIST). ITL received much positive press and Our mission is to strengthen the U.S. recognition for the AES effort; economy and improve the quality of life by developing and applying National Information Assurance technology, measurements, and Partnership (NIAP) - Thirteen standards for information technology countries signed the Mutual (IT). We also fulfill a legislative Recognition Agreement. ITL co-spon- mandate in the computer security sored the first international conference arena to develop standards and on Common Criteria (CC). The first four guidelines for the federal government. ITL is uniquely positioned in laboratories were accredited, and the final smart card security the exploding world of information technology, providing an objec- specifications were published in a CC Protection Profile; tive, independent, cutting-edge forum for measurements and stan- dards development. The laboratory carries out its mission by work- Extensible Markup Language (XML) - ITL chaired the XML stan- ing with industry, research, and government organizations to dards committee on behalf of the Organization for the develop and demonstrate tests, test methods, reference data, Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), led proof-of-concept implementations, and other infrastructure tech- the technical development of the XML conformance test effort and nologies that are essential to the global information technology developed many of the tests, and coordinated the effort that revolution. Our aim is to enable U.S. industry to produce informa- resulted in contributions from individual member companies. ITL is tion technology systems that are usable, secure, scalable, and developing a reference implementation for the registry/repository interoperable. of XML vocabularies for use in vertical markets; During the past year, ITL gained significant industry and federal Digital and Interactive TV - ITL chairs the Digital TV Application recognition in the four components of its role, i.e., research, Software Environment (DASE) conformance working group with measurement, standards, and service. We also participated in a major television networks and computer providers, and partners variety of industry consortia and groups, influencing product with industry to develop conformance tests and a reference development at an early stage in the evolution of particular implementation for the programming environment. ITL developed technical fields. Examples include: a prototype receiver testbed and a standard for Internet content and bindings to analog and digital streams; 1 i i e c t C) a i o , a t o J . Z) k n o o , J , , Pervasive Computing - ITL built a unique microphone array for An extension of this work will be the development of technologies meeting room speech acquisition and processing, and delivered to ensure IT access for people with disabilities. Another ITL initia- a sensor array and data flow systems to four collaborating tive involves working with industry to develop benchmark tests for laboratories; evaluating Web usability. In new, groundbreaking work, ITL mathe- maticians, cryptographers, telecommunications specialists, and Scientific Applications and Visualization - ITL's work enabled NIST software experts are working with NIST physicists on theories to physicists to discover unknown properties of super-cooled matter, develop quantum computation and quantum information systems. known as Bose-Einstein condensates, through unique computation and visualization techniques. The work appears on the cover of In addition to interactions with industry communities, we continue Physics Today (December 1999); to have a positive impact on other laboratories within NIST by providing research collaborations and technical services. The Braille Reader - ITL scientists developed, demonstrated, and Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division and the patented two prototypical Braille readers, a technology which Statistical Engineering Division support work in other NIST labora- could enhance accessibility to the Internet and electronic media tories and perform crucial services in areas such as modeling and for the visually challenged; validation of standards activities. Further, ITL provides vital services to the entire NIST community. These services include networking, Biometrics and Smart Cards - ITL demonstrated the interoperability high performance computing, computer support for desktop and of biometric subsystems and integrated these into smart cards, workstation machines, the telephone system, and a host of other developed the biometric applications programming interface, infrastructure activities. ITL also hosts the office of the NIST and helped forge the industry alliance known as the Biometric Chief Information Officer. Consortium; and We appreciate your interest in the Information Technology Digital Library of Mathematical Functions - In this multi-year Laboratory. In partnership with industry, government, and project, ITL is fundamentally changing access to standard mathe- academia, we will continue to provide the technical leadership matical functions reference data by creating an online, interactive for the Nation's measurement and standards infrastructure for digital mathematical library. This year all chapter outlines were information technology, as well as needed information technology completed, and contracts with contributing authors have been let. products and services to promote the U.S. economy in the global marketplace. We continued our work on the largest of our new initiatives. This is the laboratory-wide pervasive computing focus in which ITL con- tinues its leadership role in human computer interaction, such William 0. Mehuron, Director as speech and visual recognition and tracking, sophisticated Information Technology Laboratory information access from multimedia databases, extensive Web: http://www.itl.nist.gov information presentation capabilities, collaborative working E-mail: [email protected] environments, dynamic networking, security, and reliability. William 0. Mehuron, ITL Director and Acting NIST Chief Information Officer (CIO) Susan F. Zevin, Deputy Director Bruce Rosen, Office of the CIO Fred Johnson, Associate Director for Computing Paul Domich, Assistant Director for Boulder Barbara Guttman, Associate Director for Federal and Industrial Relations Robert Glenn, Special Advisor for Computing Security Operations Associate Director for Program Implementation (vacant) Kendra Cole, Senior Management Advisor Ronald Boisvert, Chief of Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division Kevin Mills, Chief of Advanced Network Technologies Division A simulated dendrite of a copper-nickel alloy as it is growing with Edward Roback, Acting Chief of Computer Security Division surface coloring to represent the relative concentration of the two metals. The simulation is implemented as a parallel program using MPI Martin Herman, Chief of Information Access Division (Message Passing Interface) and high performance visualization in a collaboration between James Warren of the NIST Material Science and Victor McCrary, Acting Chief of High Performance Systems and Services Division Engineering Laboratory and ITL (William George and Steve Satterfield). Dale Spangenberg, Chief of Distributed Computing and Information Services Division ITL Products and Services Mark Skall, Chief of Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division • reference data sets and evaluation software proof-of-concept implementations Nell Sedransk, Chief of Statistical Engineering Division • • tests and test methods • advanced software tools ITL Mission • automated software testing techniques • statistical model-based testing Our goals are to strengthen the U.S. economy and improve the • specialized databases quality of life by providing the information technology industry • electronic information on the Web and users with needed measurements and standards and to pro- • hardware, software, and network support

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