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...applied the technique to computer security. But it was not until BioPassword bought the patents from the school in 2002 that keystroke dynamics found its first commercial use. BioPassword's developers harnessed the technology into portable software and began selling it in 2004 as a backup password-protection authentication method for many online sites. Now more than 30 companies, or about half a million users, have signed on. As BioPassword CEO Mark Upson puts it, "For $1 per user annually, you've got online security that can't be sold, lost or replicated...
...most financial institutions, the new federal rules mean finding a second method to authenticate a user while ensuring that the new system doesn't disrupt business. Fingerprinting and retinal scanning are options, but both require users to have expensive additional equipment. Some credit unions also considered giving members ID tokens, a popular practice for many banks, but this proved cost prohibitive...
Kumon and other similar teaching methods are the best way to ensure that students practice math skills outside the classroom. Mastery is something that takes time and practice even for some of the most gifted students. The government should focus on ways to fund tutoring through schools or through local organization so that it is available to all students regardless of economic background. Instead of trying to come up with some revolutionary method of teaching math, we should simply learn from what Japan and other foreign countries are doing. Tutoring is best in small doses: not too much to overwhelm...
...they want to get done.” David A. Edwards, a biomedical engineering professor in Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, received a $7.6 million grant from the foundation to further his work in developing vaccination that uses inhaled sprays rather than needles, a method that could make vaccination easier and safer in developing countries. Edwards said yesterday that although medical technology may not advance as rapidly as information technology—where Bill Gates made billions through his work at Microsoft—the “power is absolutely there...
...committee meeting, the school system compared minority groups’ performance to that of whites. Using the new CPI benchmarking system, the 2005-2006 report released last night shows that the minority-white achievement gaps are narrowing. The report recalculates the achievement gaps for previous years using the CPI method to make its estimations. Some of the district’s most significant gains for minority students were on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) English language arts and mathematics exams, where African American students gained 16.4 points in English and 19.1 points in math, bringing their totals...