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property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary"> The MBE Summit has brought academia, government, and industry experts together for over 10 years to share the challenges, implementation issues, and lessons </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article about="/news-events/news/2024/04/spotlight-building-next-generation-quantum-computers-and-networks-tasshi" typeof="schema:Article" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20240529130533/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/04/spotlight-building-next-generation-quantum-computers-and-networks-tasshi" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20240529130533im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2024/04/18/Tasshi_Dennis_2.jpg?itok=4QRw141D" width="100" height="58" alt="Tasshi Dennis stands in his lab and reaches toward a countertop full of equipment with lots of wires and circuitry." typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20240529130533/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/04/spotlight-building-next-generation-quantum-computers-and-networks-tasshi"><span property="schema:name">Spotlight: Building the Next Generation of Quantum Computers and Networks With Tasshi Dennis</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2024-04-15T12:00:00Z">April 15, 2024</time> </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary"> When NIST scientist Tasshi Dennis first encountered quantum physics as a student, he was skeptical it would ever amount to any practical applications. Little </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article about="/news-events/news/2024/04/nist-researchers-give-webinar-manufacturing-cybersecurity-project" typeof="schema:Article" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20240529130533/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/04/nist-researchers-give-webinar-manufacturing-cybersecurity-project" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20240529130533im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2024/05/24/NIST%20Researchers%20Give%20Webinar%20on%20Manufacturing%20Cybersecurity%20Project%20to%20Manufacturing%20Sector%20Community%20of%20Interest.jpg?itok=bEvqh3Ev" width="100" height="67" alt="NIST Researchers Give Webinar on Manufacturing Cybersecurity Project to Manufacturing Sector Community of Interest" typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20240529130533/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/04/nist-researchers-give-webinar-manufacturing-cybersecurity-project"><span property="schema:name">NIST Researchers Give Webinar on Manufacturing Cybersecurity Project to Manufacturing Sector Community of Interest</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2024-04-01T12:00:00Z">April 1, 2024</time> </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary"> NIST researchers Timothy Zimmerman, Michael Pease, and Michael Powell, with MITRE staff, hosted a webinar with over 100 participants regarding their project </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <footer> <div class="link-list"><a href="/web/20240529130533/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news-updates/org/5636">View All News and Updates</a></div> </footer> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--dynamic-content-list-ou paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="nist-block "> <h2 class="nist-block__title"> <div class="string">Events</div> </h2> <div class="viewsreference"><div class="views-element-container"><div class="js-view-dom-id-1b2161d7ee4ecbd9047553c4aec9fab65144592d46c5667e5575f7bb94c9d246"> <div> <article about="/news-events/events/5x5-public-safety-innovation-summit" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20240529130533/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/5x5-public-safety-innovation-summit" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20240529130533im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2023/12/28/5x5_2024_Social_Register_Op1.jpg?itok=ta1_zQfd" width="100" height="53" alt="Graphic reads "5x5 the public safety innovation summit. 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