Computer Science In Biometric Security

Jonathan Smolenski, 3M Cogent, Pasadena, CA (and SSU Alumnus)

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Technology in recent years has played an increasingly invaluable role in biometric security and identification. Fingerprint matching, iris scanning and facial recognition have become staples in modern crime fighting and access controls with the help of computer science to assist in analysis and searching. Learn how 3M's security division, Cogent Systems, uses state-of-the-art computer systems in providing some of the fastest, most accurate (and very much unlike what you see on CSI) bio-metric matching in the world today.