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ANSI oversees the development and use of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. It also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards and accredits standards developing organizations that meet its requirements.
ASTM International, formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, is a nonprofit organization that develops and publishes technical standards for various materials, products, systems and services. The full form of ASTM is not explicitly stated on the web page, but it may stand for American Society for Testing and Materials.
Film speed is the measure of a photographic film's sensitivity to light, determined by sensitometry and measured on various numerical scales. The ISO system, introduced in 1974, is the most recent and widely used system for film speed, but it is also related to digital camera exposure and image lightness.
ASCII is a character encoding standard for electronic communication that represents text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. It has 128 code points, of which only 95 are printable characters, and it was developed in part from telegraph code and influenced by Unicode.
W. Edwards Deming was an American statistician, engineer, and management consultant who influenced Japan's post-war economic development. He is known for his theories of quality management, statistical process control, and the Deming Prize.
A standards organization (SDO or SSO) is an entity that develops, coordinates, or promulgates technical standards for various purposes and domains. Learn about the history, types, and functions of standards organizations, and see some examples of international and national standards.
NIST is a federal agency that promotes American innovation and industrial competitiveness through research and development of standards and technology. Learn about its history, mission, programs, and achievements in various fields such as nanotechnology, information technology, and metrology.
VESA is an American technical standards organization for computer display standards, founded in 1989. It has developed and promoted standards such as DisplayPort, DisplayHDR, and Flat Display Mounting Interface, among others.