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...little-known Cambridge University scientist could ease the public's fear. John Daugman's mathematical algorithms turn the human eye into a fingerprint. His process uses a camera to photograph the iris--the colored part of the eye--and creates a digital code based on its unique pattern. Daugman's system is extremely accurate; using 255 data points--vs. 70 for a fingerprint--it hasn't made a false match in six years of use. Indeed, iris scanners today are enhancing security at airports from Frankfurt, Germany, to Charlotte, N.C. And the British Home Office has announced that starting...
...with opening his mind to off-beat ideas. "I liked, for example, the irregularity of the iris," he says. Irreverence, he thinks, might have helped his work. Daugman finally cracked the iris code by embracing randomness. "My system finds what it is looking for by failing to match a pattern," explains Daugman, who rarely mentions that the Queen made him a knight in 2000 for his work. If his iris system makes airports safer, he will have the thanks not only of the British monarchy, but of the world as well...
...Taliban commanders of Mazar-i-Sharif abandoned the city, handing the Northern Alliance its first victory of the ground war. But there was no room in the Taliban's high-powered pickup trucks for the 900 fighters they had brought across the country from Pakistan. In a pattern that was to be repeated in other besieged cities in the coming days, when Alliance troops entered, they found the streets of Mazar deserted except for pockets of foreign soldiers who had nowhere to run to. Red Cross officials say they picked up 131 bodies around the city Saturday morning...
...woman on the beach that captures their collective attention is Cheryl, played by Ajarae D. Johnson ’02, a twenty-something bank teller who has just been proposed to by her straightedge boss, a man who files his shirts by pattern and color. She has embarked on a girl’s weekend with her friend Rhonda (Abigail L. Fee ’05), who does not catch the boys’ interest as prominently...
Champi connected with wide receiver Pete Varney on a slant pattern to pick up the final two points, and the game ended 29-29, prompting the now infamous Crimson headline, “Harvard beats Yale...