NRC Opportunities at NIST Gaithersburg, Maryland in the Convergent Information Systems Division of the Information Technology Laboratory Scalable Computing Measurement and Performance Modeling GE Lyon, 50.89.51.B2069 Investigations to determine and enhance the ability of networked systems architectures to handle scientific computing, electronic commerce, and other evolving distributed applications. 50.89.51.B3974 Many of the current standards for display apply to conventional CRT display and passive viewing by the user. This research project examine new metrics for the quality of content as it is rendered on a particular display for a specific application, specifically for electronic books and portable convergent information systems.
Research involves the study of video artifacts, and ways to quantify digital display performance.
For example, this may include digital cinema and tests for the effects of compression on screen resolution. Investigations will also focus on the development of new technologies for increasing storage density with minimal bit-error rates for optical discs, and the reliability of DVD as an archival and dynamic storage platform. The goal of this project is to develop metrics and guidelines for he storage of information on writable optical disc media, and to demonstrate increased storage using new and novel techniques. Our current research involves the development of the new applications based on our prototype electronic book and implementation of the newly developed Open e-Book specification for electronic content. The initial research is focused in aspects of biometrics and smart cards including research on multimodel biometrics and data fusion, and aspects of research related to the convergence of authentication technologies.