If anyone is after a primer on biometric recognition, check this out. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12720 You can read it online or download or buy a paper copy. There is an interesting review of the history of the terms and tracing the emergence of identification of humans by their biological characteristics, like finger prints, and their relationship to the field of statistics and eugenics through the work of Galton. Fascinating.
As an aside, I stumbled across this site, www.nap.edu as a free source of academic papers and monographs. Worth browsing. Jan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
