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and over his amazement
at a demonstration of a supermarket scanner...how out of touch it meant he
was with the real-life of us little people who shop for ourselves?
That is machine vision, using a laser scanner.
It is quite sophisticated these days.
* "BANKS WILL SOON SEE POSITIVE EYE-D", The New York Post, May 20, 1996
*
* Two New York Banks are considering using retina-scanning technology
* to allow customer access to their ATMs. The scanning occurs automatically
* when the customer gets within three feet of the ATM.
# "Eye To Eye: Contact!", Information Week magazine, June 3 1996
#
# Computer passwords may be a thing of the past using a scanner that maps
# over 400 identifying features of your iris. The system will be tested at
# ATMs in Columbus, Ohio later this year. The company has been inundated
# with calls from other industries interested in using the technology.
And what about head shots of people...any 'machine vision' deals there?
* "New System Lets Computer Identify Pictures and Images"
* The New York Times, By John Holusha, [I failed to date the article clipping]
*
* New technology that may help solve one of the thorniest problems in computer
* science---teaching machines to recognize pictures--- was announced yesterday
* by officials of the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, NJ. "We are
* going to make a business out of this", said IS VP Curtis R. Carlson. "It
* does things on a personal computer that used to require a supercomputer."
# "FBI Setting Standards for Computer Picture File of Criminals", NYT, 11/5/95
#
# A meeting called "Mug Shot and Facial Image Standards Conference
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