Re: Biometric Authentication Resources?

[Frederick M Avolio <fred () avolio com>]

At 04:19 PM 12/13/99 -0600, Tobia,Paul wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone can point me towards some reputable resources on
> biometric authetication?

ICSA has a biometrics consortium. (http://www.icsa.net/). Self promotion, 
but it might also help YOU :-) -- I wrote a piece for network computing to 
accompany their recent buyer's guide. It is at 
http://www.networkcomputing.com/1017/1017buyers2.html. I also wrote 
something for Network World a year before that touches on biometrics some. 
See http://www.avolio.com/Identconf.html.

I pulled this from a sidebar I provided for the NWC article:

BioBodies: Biometric Industry Organizations The non-profit Association for 
Biometrics (www.afb.org. uk) promotes the awareness, development and 
deployment of biometric-related technologies.

The Biometric Consortium (BIOM CONS) is the U.S. government's focal point 
for research, development, testing, evaluation and application of 
biometric-based personal identification/ verification technology 
(www.biometrics.org/).

The BioAPI Consortium, introduced on April 27, 1998, was formed to develop 
a widely available and accepted API that will serve various biometric 
technologies (www.bioapi.org/).

The ICSA has founded the CBDC (Commercial Biometric Developer Consortium, 
www.icsa. net/services/consortia/ cbdc). This cooperative industry group is 
designed to define and advance the common goals of the biometric vendor and 
integrator community.

The National Biometric Test Center (NBTC) is at San Jose State University. 
The Biometric Consortium established the NBTC in 1997 as a testing, 
learning and educational organization dedicated to the development, 
documentation, dissemination, promotion and teaching of performance 
standards and testing protocols for biometric technologies 
(www-engr.sjsu.edu/~graduate/biometrics/).


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