New Video Highlights ATP Role in Technology Innovation
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For
10 years, the NIST Advanced Technology Program has worked to spur
the development of path-breaking new technologies by providing cost-shared
funding for potentially valuable but high-risk R&D; projects. Nearly 200
projects have been completed, and more than 200 currently are under way.
In industry after industry—medical diagnostics, semiconductor manufacturing,
automobiles, telecommunications, information technology, electronics,
high-performance composites, biotechnology—the United States can offer
the world’s markets many leading-edge technologies that we wouldn’t have
without the ATP.
The video features interviews with industry research managers that highlight how the program enables breakthrough technologies in a wide variety of fields, promotes the formation of cooperative R&D; consortia, and offers valuable early support to small entrepreneurial technology firms.
The ATP video plays with streaming technology through a T-1 line or 56K modem. Therefore, you do not need to load them on your hard drive. However, streaming technology limits the video frame rate to 8-15 frames per second for T-1 and 5-9 frames per second for 56K compared with 30 frames per second for full motion video. This is because the video skips frames in order to keep up with the sound track, which does play at 30 frames per second using streaming technology. The result is that with 56K, the video appears to be a series of still frames while with T-1 you have more sense of motion.
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Date created: May 22, 2000
Last updated: June 23, 2003
