For workers not skiving off work to look at pornography, quick retrieval of information remains a problem. For all the advances in information retrieval putting your hand on the right document or data is difficult.
Office automation systems through the 1980s and 1990s, such as PROFS, OfficeVision, All-in-1 and so on provided us with electronic folders where we could successfully file our important (and not so important) information for easy retrieval at a...
However, the latest proposal set out by the European Commission not only intends to speed up the roadmap set out in regulation 334/2002, but is designed to further improve the security of EU passports to aid the detection of individuals using...
In 2005, European visas and passports will have to carry an RFID-type chip containing the digitised facial image of the rightful holder. When passing through customs, the document will be scanned by a reader, which will compare the image on the...
The algorithm, created by Stephanie Schuckers, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Clarkson, detects and accounts for the pattern of perspiration when reading a fingerprint image.
Since the tail end of the caring 90s it's been the done thing for companies to implement schemes and initiatives to 'give something back' to the community. Other cynics may suggest the bonus here is the companies enjoy all the benefits of running...