Education

News and information about the use of biometrics in educational settings.

Center for Global Development names UIDAI Chairman featured speaker for Sabot lecture

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The Center for Global Development (CGD) has announced this year’s featured speaker for its eighth-annual Richard H. Sabot Lecture: Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India. The lecture is set to take place on April 22 at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. In his lecture, Nilekani will focus on his experience with Aadhaar, its progress, and also steaps for the coming years. Prior to his position as Chairman of the UIDAI, Nilekani co-founded and served as

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FIDO Alliance president and Paypal CISO Michael Barrett to keynote Voice Biometrics Conference

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Opus Research has named another keynote this year’s for the Voice Biometrics Conference, set to take place May 8-9 in San Francisco: FIDO Alliance president and Paypal CISO Michael Barrett. Barrett will show a new authentication approach advocated by the FIDO Alliance as a part of the opening keynote, which is intended to open a wide variety of application possibilities by simplifying authentication processes while reducing fraud. The Voice Biometrics Conference is an annual meeting place highlighting the latest developments and deployments

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OMICS Group announces 2nd International Conference on Biometrics and Biostatistics

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The OMICS Group has announced its second International Conference and Exhibition on Biometrics & Biostatistics, set to take place June 10-12 at the Hilton Chicago Northbrook in Illinois. According to the group, this event gives the opportunity to participate in a congress with fellow colleagues, delegates, exhibitors and leading scientists in the field of Biometrics and Biostatistics. The scientific program will focus on current advances in research and serves as a catalyst for the advancement of Biostatistics and Biometrics. This year’s conference

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NIST releases new set of publications on AFIS interoperability for forensic examiners

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A new set of publications from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) aims to make fingerprint matching easier and more reliable for forensic examiners. Currently, forensic examiners must encode the distinctive features of a latent print into an AFIS in order to find a match on file. If there are different identification systems involved, notation methods and data definitions can differ from one AFIS to the next, a headache for examiners. In 2008, in an attempt to address this

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Biometrics Institute launches program for Technology Showcase Europe

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The Biometrics Institute has confirmed the full conference program for its June 27, 2013 Technology Showcase Europe event, set to take place at the Royal Bank of Scotland in London. Headlining this year’s event are Prof Chris Hankin, Director, Institute for Security Science and Technology; Dr Itiel Dror, University College London; and Andrew Renison, Forensic Science Regulator and Surveillance Camera Commissioner (UK). Topics to be covered throughout the event include Security and Integrity, distributed cognition between humand and technology, regulations of surveillance

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BQu TMS launches biometric student attendance system

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BQu TMS has announced the launch of its cloud-based biometric Student Attendance Management System (SAMS), designed specifically to support higher education institutions to comply with United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) requirements for managing and documenting student attendance. Reported previously in BiometricUpdate.com, applicants outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland granted permission to stay in the UK for more than 6 months must now apply for a biometric residence permit. The UKBA has been rolling out biometric resident permits to different visa categories

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Location Tracking and Biometrics Conference to take place March 3, focus on issues of privacy

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The Location Tracking and Biometrics Conference is set to take place, March 3, 2013 at Yale Law School, and promises to bring together leading experts in law, politics and academics to discuss the implications, privacy concerns and the future for location tracking and biometrics. The conference will consist of four panel discussions and will discuss various forms of location tracking and the implications of biometric identification, as well as to analyze legal problems and to propose statutory solutions. “This conference

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Sinton Independent School District in Texas introduces biometric attendance to school buses

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Students in the Sinton Independent School District in Texas will soon be fingerprinted when boarding the school bus. Sinton is the first school district in Texas to use the technology and this week has been spent by staff recording fingerprints. By next week, biometric systems are set to be installed on school district buses, Kristv.com reported. When students board the bus, all they have to do is scan their fingerprint and the time clock will record the information and sync

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South African Department of Basic Education eyes massive biometric system

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The Department of Basic Education in South Africa has plans for a massive project that would see 24,000 schools equipped with biometric clocking devices. The project is believed to be the biggest of its kind and is set to be active in 2015. According to a report in MoneyWeb, this system has been devised in an attempt to address teacher absenteeism. Currently, across South Africa, manual sign-in systems still exist for teachers, which has left the system susceptible to abuse and

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IDGA announces Border Management Southwest conference, releases full conference agenda

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The Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA) has just announced its fourth-annual Border Management Southwest conference, set to take place May 29-31, 2013 in Tucson, Arizona. According to the event website, this year’s conference promises to bring together all relevant stakeholders to discuss the most pressing issues facing the Department of Homeland Security, from efforts to build new partnership to modernizing security capabilities. Policy makers, uniformed service leaders, law enforcement and industry partners will converge in Tucson to network,

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