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Article: At Banks of Future, An Eye for an ID
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 6, 1996
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The cash machine of the near future may not care about your
PIN or your plastic. But it will take a quick peek at your face --
specifically at the fibers, furrows, crypts, blood vessels and other
minutiae of your iris.
For just over a decade, scientists have known how to delineate
the characteristics that make the iris of every eye as unique as a
fingerprint. But it was only in 1992 that John Daugman, then a
Harvard University researcher in computational neuroscience,
developed a method for digitally encoding a photographic image of an
iris.
Daugman's technique has now been incorporated into an
automated teller machine developed by Sensar of Princeton, N.J.
Sensar, a subsidiary of ...