Testimonials

"... thanks for the excellent and valuable work that you have been doing in support of the ISO/IEEE 11073 standards."
Melvin Reynolds, Vice-Chair CEN TC251: Health Informatics, Convenor, ISO TC215: Health Informatics-Personal Health

"I have benefited using your Medical Your Medical Device Test Tool software over the past several months and consider this work highly important because in healthcare institutions everywhere the problem of poor access to, and poor integration of, critical medical device data is huge - clinicians need the complete up-to-the-second set of measurements to give the patient the most appropriate care. I view this NIST work as seeding a major future advance in healthcare data integration"
John G. Rhoads, Software Development Engineer, Patient Monitoring Division, Philips Medical Systems

"I consider your work significant when it comes to testing implementations against the ISO/IEEE 11073-x set of standards..."
J.-Uwe Meyer, PhD, BBA
Professor, Head of Research, Dragerwerk AG

"The technical and management staff of the U.S. NIST/ITL provided orientation and education to EHR TC members on conformance."
Acknowledgement in ANSI/HL7 EHR-System Functional Model Standard

"NIST has brought a great deal of value to the HL7 EHR TC (and other venues within HL7)... Their knowledge in this area is unparalleled and the work that they have done for us is pretty amazing."
Linda Fischetti, Co-chair HL7 EHR Committee
Acting Chief Health Informatics Officer for the VHA's Office of Information

"I wanted to thank you again for the help you provided us toward understanding and interpreting the IHE rules. Guys like you are tremendously valuable resources and I'm convinced that IHE is going to be hugely successful because of your efforts.”
Joe Murray, VP, Technology, Hx Technologies

“I would like to extend special thanks and recognition to Lynne Rosenthal, Lisa Carnahan, Gordon Lyon and Mark Skall. Perhaps the most important step toward fulfilling the ONCHIT mission in the current timeframe is developing and achieving consensus on technology standards. This is where Lynne, Lisa, Gordon, and Mark have made a significant contribution to our work. I am thankful that I have access to outstanding technical resources like the four NIST employees who have played such a significant role in our Federal Health Architecture efforts."
David Brailer, M.D., Ph.D. Dept of HHS, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

[Appreciation for Carmelo Montanez's efforts] “I am beginning to wonder if we should rename our test suite as: ‘Carmelo’s XQuery test suite’. Great job! Keep up the good work!”
Paul Cotton, Microsoft and Chair of W3C XML Query Working Group

"The TGDC and NIST put in a tremendous amount of effort into this important project. We also know that the staff of NIST worked under significant pressure to get this accomplished on a timely basis. They are true professionals. It has been a real pleasure to work everyone at NIST. So on behalf of the EAC, I want to express to all of you the EAC's deep appreciation for your work. These Guidelines will give America's election officials and vendors the guidance they have been looking for--and will also give the American people greater trust and confidence in the way their votes are being cast and counted."
Paul DeGregorio, Vice Chairman, US Election Assistance Commission

"NIST does things by the book and develops systems that are robust and will work. It is the nation’s laboratory for conformance to standards, and we wanted to bring their expertise and discipline into HHS."
Michael Fitzmaurice, Senior Science Adviser for Information Technology, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

“The Healthcare Standards Landscape is an excellent idea. Groups like AHIMA have advocated for some time that we need a process by which standards for IT can be harmonized. What NIST is attempting to do will make that decision-making process transparent. By using the Landscape, we will be able to identify health-information standards and determine how they impact the healthcare industry.”
Dan Rode, Vice-President for Policy and Government Relations, American Health Information Management Assoc

“Thank you [Lisa Carnahan] for participating in the Nationwide Health Information Network Request for Information Response Review Taskforce (RTF). Your contributions have helped to build the foundation for achieving the interoperability needed ot establish and sustain an environment for secure, accurate, and timely exchange of health information. I greatly appreciate your willingness to share your valuable time and expertise with us and other participants on the taskforce."
David Brailer, M.D., Ph.D. Dept of HHS, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

“HIMSS would like to thank NIST for investing the time, energy and resources in demonstrating practical interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) during the Interoperability Showcase held at the 2005 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exibition. Through this demonstration, some 2,300 conference attendees created and managed their sample health records. This was possible by featureing your product [XDS Reference Implementation]... Without your participation the Showcase would not have achieved this success."
H. Stephen Lieber, President/CEO, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

“The draft EHR conformance criteria are really quite powerful. It advances a conformance strategy that can be shared and discussed. Thank you for taking on the challenge and giving the EHR group real substance upon which to deliberate and move forward.”
Gary Dickinson, CTO Speech Products Inc and HL7 EHR project lead

“Your work on EHR conformance has provided a solid, foundational block that will benefit many people’s health for many, many hears to come. Thank you and well done!”
John Ritter, Chair HL7-EHR Committee

“NIST’s guidance has been very helpful. They provided some insights about the attributes of good conformance criteria and how to apply them. Using their guidelines helps the EHR committee conform to recognized processes and adds to the credibility beyond that which the TC and HL7 have already achieved.”
Donald Mon, Vice President, Practice Leadership, American Health Information Management Assoc (AHIMA)

“HIMSS as a sponsor of the IHE initiative would like to express its appreciation for the ongoing commitment of NIST to IHE activities through the representation of Lisa Carnahan and Bill Majurski. Bill has been instrumental this year in the expansion of the IHE Technical Framework. His excellent work and leadership as an expert on the IT Infrastructure Committee has been welcomed, embraced, and respected by other IHE experts. Lisa’s role as a thought leader has helped the IHE initiative to further achieve its strategic direction and better understand the government’s role relative to healthcare information activities.”
Joyce Sensmeier, Director of Professional Services, HIMSS

“The NSRL Reference Data Set will ensure the integrity of the source code that VoteHere released back in April”
Jim Adler, founder VoteHere Inc.

"This is really substantial work ... this is a great step forward." [Re: Bill Majurski's HL7/NIST Experimental Registry Work.]
Liora Alschuler, Project Director, HL7-IHE Joint Demonstration, HIMSS 2004 Annual Conference & Exhibition

“There are some interesting ideas to use for testing SOAP and Web Services – thanks for your advice because it will help us start on the right foot.”
Jose Kaham, W3C Team.

“I want to look at the Test Accelerator not only from the perspective of LSB testing, but because one of my colleagues at Intel is working on open source tests for interfaces described by the Service Availability Forum, and the existence of a tools that can generate tests from interface specs would be very interesting and helpful to that project.”
Mats Wichmann, Linus Standards Base Chairperson

"We appreciate the services NIST is providing to the computer forensic community."
Jonathan Bair, Senior Director of Product Development, Guidance Software

"Your team has done a great job prototyping the [Government Smart Card] test suite and they should be congratulated for their effort. Well done! Well done!
J. Scott Lowry, Diversinet USA

"NIST leadership and technical expertise has resulted in a comprehensive set of test suites that will continue to significantly improve the quality of XML products and increase interoperability in the implementation of several key W3C specifications. By helping lead the QA activity, NIST is enabling the technology transfer of NIST expertise by ensuring that W3C Working Groups have the necessary guidance to develop better and more testable specifications and timely and high-quality test suites."
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director

"I am aware and very grateful for the NIST XSLT 1.0 test suite. It is a pillar of the ALTOVAXSLT processor test-suite, and one that I am gratefule for. Once again thanks to you and your colleagues for the extensive XSLT test suite. I also use the XQuery/XPath2 test suite and these are a great help in my work."
Margaret A. Gruen-Kerr, Quality Assurance Engineer, Altova GmbH

"Once again, we really appreciate NIST taking this on [re: conformance test development for IEEE1073] - it will provide a great benefit to the industry"
Todd Cooper, Chair IEEE 1073 Point-of-Care Medical Device Communications Standards, Technical Director, Medical Device Communications Industry Group

"NIST has been an invaluable resource in the OASIS IIC Technical Committee... The IIC could not have released three significant documents (interoperability test suite, ebXML test framework specification, deployment template for ebXML messageing), without the help from Michael Kass. I have to thank the Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division, its Chief Mark Skall and Michael Kass in particular, who has been the technical expert and key leader in moving forward the IIC agenda..."
Jacques Durant, Chair of OASIS ebXML IIC, Director Industry Relations and Standards, Fujitsu Software Corp.

"We picked your test cases [XSLT] because they span a useful range of functionality, they are easy to read, and they are uniformly and clearly structured. Thank you for creating them!"
Stuart Baurmann, CTO, Scurtable Systems, Inc.

"I want to let you guys know that what you are doing is very exciting and very important. Discovery protocols are indeed fundamental to the kinds of dynamic and self-organizing systems the computer industry must evolve towards, and formal modeling and analysis of complex systems is an essential step to understanding and influencing aggregate behavior of such systems."
Kyril Faenov, Project Manager, Microsoft

"I hope you at NIST all realize that your services are appreciated--there is no way the XML Core WG would have the resources to do all this."
Paul Grosso, Co-chair WG3 XML Core Working Group, VP Research/CoFounder, Arbortext

"Anything NIST can do that can crack that conundrum [health care system interoperability] can help."
Jeff Sutherland, CTO, PatientKeeper Inc.

"Special thanks to NIST for submitting and maintaining the [DOM] tests."
Philippe Le Hegaret, Chair, W3C DOM Working Group

"When tested against the DOM Conformance Test Suite, X-Hive/DB passed all 290 tests. As far as we know, X-Hive/DB is currently (March 2002) the only product to do so. X-Hive is looking forward to the Level 2 and Level 3 test."
X-Hive Corporation

"Thank you so much. Your responses were a BIG help for us, especially for me who is just new to this conformance testing."
Razil Delacruz, Enterworks Inc.

"Your folks [Mary Brady, Carmelo Montanez] did a stupendous job and we would not be exiting CR if it had not been for their tremendous efforts. I am exceedingly pleased with the results."
Sharon Adler, IBM and Chair W3C XSL WG

"Lisa Carnahan and Len Gallagher from NIST provided much of the intellectual firepower in the Registry-Repository Group, with important ideas for this very important part of the ebXML architecture."
From book: ebXML: The New Global Standard by Alan Kotok and David Webber

"Learning about these problems {Jini and ADL} alone make my trip to NIST worth the time and effort."
Jim Waldo, Sun, Chief Architect of Jini

"The Associate Directors and I view your [Len Gallagher's] continued involvement as critical to our success."
Dixon Butler, Director GLOBE Project, NOAA

"[Jim Lyle] Just a note to let you know how much we appreciate your help in providing DCFL with software to test the capabilities and features of hardware duplicators. Your software has proven to be an invaluable toolset for testing these devices. We also greatly appreciate your quick turn around in responding to our questions and requests for new features."
Mark Hirsh, DCFL

"Very useful set of measurement and testing tools. Thanks." [re: Jim Lyle's work]
Gord Hama, Principal Engineer, Senior Consultant, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Technical Security Branch, Technical Operations Directorate

Software testing work (of SDCT) ... is highly appropriate serving a broad set of companies who would not, on their own make these investments.
NIST Visiting Committee, 1999

OASIS and NIST provide unbiased test suites, uninfluenced by any one product or company
Norbert Mikula, CTO DataChannel

The OASIS XML conformance work is greatly enhanced by the leadership of NIST. NIST's mission is standards and testing. Their many years of experience in providing quality, comprehensive conformance test suites are a tremendous asset to OASIS.
Laura Walker, Executive Director, OASIS

We are extremely happy to be working with NIST. Their rigorous testing standards and understanding of XML and all its implementations for successful e-business is second to none.
David Webber, Vice President of XML Global Technologies Inc.

"Thanks! Your indicated document is exactly what I am looking for... I have installed the RPG-Admin tool you sent to me and it worked. It is really nice."
Peter Xiao, Liberate Technologies, referring to the NIST patent 6,202,066, "Implementation of Role/Group Permission Association Using Object Access Type"

"The article serves as an excellent entry for program slicing for the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering." "The presentation is excellent."
Two anonymous reviewers comment on the Program Slicing article written by Dr. James Lyle for the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering

The high quality conformance test suite and certification program produced by the SDCT is an invaluable resource for the ATA and its Technical Information and Communication Committee.
Robert Peel, Director of Engineering and Air Worthiness, Air Transport Assoc.

NIST conformance products provide an invaluable high-tech resource for the VRML Consortium.
Neil Trevett, President, VRML Consortium

"Computer Aided Control System Design (CACSD) Models and methods are a fundamental part of the Ford Motor Company process for developing embedded software for vehicle control. Key research in this area includes NIST investigations by Dr. Paul Black. An innovative result of the NIST research is the use of counter examples to generate test vector inputs."
Wayne J. Johnson, Manager, Powertrain Control Systems Lab, Ford Research Lab, commenting on Dr. Paul Black's research in Automatic Test Generation

"PLEASE DO IT! Everyone I've talked to is excited about your proposal."
Mike Dolan representing DIRECTV, chair of SMPTE DDE, referring to the proposed development of the NIST Interactive TV (ITV) Testbed

"You might be interested in knowing that we (Department of Veterans Affairs Architects) identified the development of ESSO/IORBAC during a VHA (Veterans Health Administration) Architecture review last week as a critical component of our PKI. This endorsement marks this effort as one of VHA's top priorities"
Mike Davis, Security Consultant, SAIC. Referring to the NIST developed ESSO (Enterprise Single Sign On) and IORBAC (Inter-organization Role Based Access Control)