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Biometrics
Descriptive Essay # 115739
Biometrics
A look at the many applications of biometric technology.
1,620 words (approx. 6.5 pages) |
4 sources |
APA | 2009
Paper Summary:
The paper discusses the early uses of biometrics and identifies three uses of biometrics in today's technology-driven world. The paper then explains the common biometrics implementations used today, that include fingerprinting, handwriting, palm printing, facial recognition, iris or retinal scanning, voice recognition and the yet to be agreed on by experts, DNA recognition. Also looked at are emerging biometrics that could one day be the standard in this kind of technology.From the Paper:
"Biometrics has been a familiar technology to most people in today's Internetworked world. The technology has had many applications and it is still emerging with updated and upgraded applications. Even if a textbook definition is not presented on what biometrics is, one can surmised that its etymology comprised of two root word "biology" and "metrics." Hence, biology stands for a function of life while metrics aims at measuring something. Indeed, biometrics looks at measuring something "biological." The textbook definition of biometrics is a "general term used alternatively to describe a characteristic or a process. As a characteristic, a biometric is a measurable biological (anatomical and physiological) and behavioral characteristic that can be used for automated recognition."Sample of Sources Used:
- Anderson, Ross J. (2008). "Biometrics." Security engineering: A guide to building dependable distributed systems, 2nd. ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 261-276.
- Jain, Anil K. & Ross, Arun. (2004, January). "Multibiometric systems." Communications of the ACM, Vol. 47, No.1, pp. 34-40.
- NSTC Subcommittee on Biometrics. (2006, June 26). Biometrics foundation documents. [Online] Retrieved 21 April 2008 from the national Science and Technology Council database on the Website: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-13.pdf.
- Watkins, Marc. (2007, June 2). Biometrics. [Online] Retrieved 21 April 2008 from the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic on the Website: http://www.cippic.ca/biometrics/
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Biometrics (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Descriptive-Essay-Biometrics/115739
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"Biometrics" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Descriptive-Essay-Biometrics/115739>
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