Suggested Readings

Biometrics:


• "The Uses and Abuses of Biometrics," Bruce Schneier, Communications of the ACM, August 1999, p. 136.
  
  Read the series of articles from the most recent Computer which was a special issue on Biometrics:
  
  
• "Biometrics: The future of Identification," Sharath Pankanti, Ruud M. Bolle, Anil Jain, IEEE Computer, January 2000, pp. 46-49.
• "An Introduction to Evaluating Biometric Systems," P. Jonathon Phillips, Alvin Martin, C.L. Wilson, Mark Przybocki, IEEE Computer, January 2000, pp. 56-63.
• "Face Recognition for Smart Environments," Alex Pentland, Tanzeem Choudhury, IEEE Computer, January 2000, pp. 50-55.
• "BioID: A Multimodal Biometric Identification System," Robert Frischholz, Ulrich Dieckmann, IEEE Computer, January 2000, pp. 64-68.
• "An Iris Biometric System for Public and Personal Use," Michael Negin, Thomas Chmielewski, Marcos Salganicoff, Theodore Camus, Ulf Cahn von Seelen, Peter Venetainer, Guanghua Zhang, IEEE Computer, January 2000, pp. 70-75.
• "Federal Biometric Technology Legislation," James Wayman, IEEE Computer, January 2000, pp. 76-80.
  
  Computer Interfaces:
  
  
• "Neural Interfaces Link the Mind and the Machine," John Charles, IEEE Computer, January 1999, pp. 16-18.
• "Mind Over Matter," Mimi Zucker, Scientific American, November 1999, pp. 51-52.
• "Advances in Electronics," Ricki Rusting, Scientific American, September 1999, sidebar pp. 72-73.
• "New Ways to manage Information," Mark Billinghurst, Thad Starner, IEEE Computer, January 1999, pp. 57-64.
  
  Aside:
  
  
• "Citing URL's: A Matter of Trust?" Tim Wooler, IEEE Computer, October 1997, p. 6.
• "URL's in Print: To Cite or Not to Cite," Ed. Ron Vetter, IEEE Computer, February 1998, pp. 114-115.

Homework Assignment

• Will biometric identification systems become a pervasive identification system? If so which one and why? If not why not?