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How Atomic Clocks Have Changed Our World

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One of NIST’s ytterbium lattice atomic clocks: NIST physicists combined two of these experimental clocks to make the world’s most stable single atomic clock. The image is a stacked composite of about 10 photos in which an index card was positioned in front of the lasers to reveal the laser beam paths. Credit: N. Phillips/NIST

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Time: We all have a sense of it, an innate feel for it. We see it and use it every day.

The Problem With Improvement Projects

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An engineer once told me, “I work on project teams that have an average half-life of two weeks, implementing solutions with an average half-life of two weeks.” Time after time, and in place after place, our improvement efforts often fall short of expectations and fad

Three Simple Tests to Recognize High-Quality 3D Scanners

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In today’s market, it seems like all 3D scanners have similar specifications, as if manufacturers look at their competitors’ data and use the same numbers.

Real-World Data and Real-World Evidence

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While clinical trials are the gold standard for generating clinical data to use as evidence of your medical device’s safety and effectiveness, they are by no means the only way to gather clinical evidence.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership

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Leadership is perilous territory. People’s lives are at stake (sometimes literally). Although avoiding the following seven deadly sins won’t guarantee you’ll be a great leader, succumbing to them will guarantee you’ll have a significant learning moment.

How Technology Supports ALCOA Principles

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In the highly regulated world of life sciences, data integrity isn’t optional; it’s essential.

Speed and Service

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Speed is one of the most strategic elements a company can use to attract and retain customers and drive its revenues.

A Faster, Better Way to Train General-Purpose Robots

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With enough of the right kind of data you can teach new robots new tricks. Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash

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In the 1960s cartoon series The Jetsons, Rosie the robotic maid seamlessly switches from vacuuming the house to cooking dinner to taking out the trash. But in real life, training a general-purpose robot remains a major challenge.

Making It Easier to Verify an AI Model’s Responses

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With SymGen, an LLM generates responses with citations that point directly to the place in a source document, such as a given cell in a database. Credit: MIT News; iStock

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Despite their impressive capabilities, large language models (LLMs) are far from perfect. These artificial intelligence models sometimes “hallucinate” by generating incorrect or unsupported information in response to a query.

Time-Based Maintenance

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Facility and equipment maintenance is most effective when performed proactively and regularly. This kind of routine maintenance can take many forms, ranging from the most basic approaches to complicated strategies using sensors and data to trigger maintenance.

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