NIST funds ‘excellence’ center to back U.S. role in AI-related standards writing

The National Institute of Standards and Technology will provide $15 million for an excellence center to promote U.S. participation in global standards writing for critical emerging technologies including the semiconductors that support artificial intelligence.

“Broad U.S. participation in the international standards process is vital to ensuring global market access for our products and services in the highly competitive and rapidly evolving technologies and that the resulting standards are based on sound science,” NIST associate director for lab programs Charles Romine...