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All of that began to change 15 years ago at a meeting at Harvard with the birth of Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)--a consortium of international seismic research stations funded by the National Science Foundation.
Dziewonski was the first chair of IRIS, and was reelected to serve again in that capacity this year.
To make these calculations possible, IRIS planned and constructed a network of unprecedented scale.
IRIS is close to its goal, with 100 stations already operational in its Global Seismic Network, using state-of-the-art technology 10 to 100 times better than the previous generations of seismographs.
...Star Trek gadgetry, NCR Corp. and biometric technology firm Sensar, Inc. have teamed up to produce an Automatic Teller Machine which identifies cardholders by the iris of their eyes. Using standard video cameras with specialized real-time image processing, ATMs will snap a shot of a customer's irises, then compare it with a pre-recorded digital file before releasing any cash. Thanks to the iris's "fraud-proof" reliability, NCR and Sensar predict that banks will soon be selling everything from airline tickets to insurance policies through the local ATM. Sadly the innovation comes too late to save...