Working at NIST

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Working at NIST

• Jim Lyle
• MASPLAS 07

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Who

• Farm labor
• Gas station
• Textile mill
• Student BS
• UETEC
• ETSU
• Student MS, MS (again), PhD
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• UMBC
• NIST

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Where

• DOC - Department of Commerce
• NIST - Nat. Institute of Standards Technology
• ITL - Information Technology Lab
• SDCT - Software Diag. Conformance Testing
• SQG - Software Quality Group
• CFTT - Computer Forensics Tool Testing Project

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What

• POSIX -- standards
• UNRAVEL -- tools
• PEST -- reference data
• CFTT -- conformance testing
• SAMATE
• HAVA
• HL7

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What Else?

• Access, excel mysql
• Word Latex
• C, Assembler, Csh, sed, awk, grep
• Apache HTML
• DOS, W98, W2K, WXP, Vista, RedHat, SuSe, Fedora,
  FreeBSD, OS X, VM
• Maintain HW add memory

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Pros Cons

• Pros
• Research environment -- like university
• Diverse projects -- lots of interesting things
• Good benefits
• Cons
• Match group mission with interest
• Move slowly
• Bureaucracy

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The End

• Thanks
• Contacts
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
  http//www.surf.nist.gov/surf2.htm