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IEEE Spectrum and the New York Academy of Sciences will co-sponsor a media briefing on "Surveillance Technology: Protecting Public Places and Tracking Terror Threats" on Wednesday, 31 October 2001. The briefing will be held at 2:45 p.m. (ET) at the New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd Street, New York City.
Rodney W. Nichols, president and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, will give welcoming remarks. Susan Hassler, editor of IEEE Spectrum, will serve as moderator. A panel of five experts will describe the technologies involved and the legal, moral, and social impact of their implementation:
Joseph Atick, Ph.D., chairman, chief executive officer and co-founder of Visionics Corp., a leader in biometrics--a method of identifying people by scanning and quantifying their unique physical characteristics
Robert Freeman, executive director, Committee on Open Government, New York State Department of State
Steve Maybank, Ph.D., chairperson, Third IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, and a researcher in computer vision, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Barry Steinhardt, associate director, American Civil Liberties Union
Michael A. Vatis, director, Institute for Security Technology Studies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
To register for the briefing's audio conference, the dial-in number is 973-628-6885.
Contact: Nancy T. Hantman, IEEE Spectrum, 212-419-7561, [email protected]
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