Michael Kass is a Computer Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Washington DC. A 1984 graduate of the Ohio State University with a B.S. in Geodetic Science, Mr. Kass worked in the Geodesy Department of the Defense Mapping Agency from 1984 to 1989. In 1989 changed to the computer science field as a computer systems and applications programmer for the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Carderock, Maryland. In 1996, Mr. Kass joined NIST as a software testing developer in the Standards and Conformance Testing Division of the Information Technology Laboratory.