Digital forensics experts often extract data from computers and mobile phones that may contain evidence of a crime. Researchers at NIST will conduct the first large-scale study to measure how well those experts do their job. Rather than testing the proficiency of individual experts, the study aims to measure the performance of the digital forensics community overall. In this online study, participants will examine simulated digital evidence, then answer questions that might arise in a real criminal investigation. The exercise should take about two hours, and participation is voluntary. Enrollment is now open, and the online test will be available for approximately three months.
New tools developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts in natural language processing and data curation and discovery allow researchers to get the most from the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a collection of scientific literature about coronaviruses containing tens of thousands of items. NIST developed these tools in response to the March 16, 2020, White House Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset, which called on the AI community to develop ways to make the collection’s text and data easily searchable by biomedical researchers.
