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Article: Ovation for innovation.(Editor's Note)(installation of surveillance cameras )
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- Security Management
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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It can be depressing to work in security, with its focus on the dark side of human nature. But at the ASIS International seminar and exhibits each year, I see evidence of our better nature--camouflaged amid the flashing lights and flashy sales pitches in the exhibit hall is the indomitable spirit of innovation.
One example this year was the brainchild of Eric Rubenstein, who as a NASA astrophysicist worked on keeping gamma rays from interfering with the Hubble telescope's imagery. Fortunately for all of us, his thoughts did not stay focused beyond the stratosphere.
In the summer of 2002, Rubenstein saw surveillance cameras being installed around New York ...