 Two things are certain about biometrics: It is the hot buzzword in identity management for convenience and protection from terrorists and identity thieves – and it’s not foolproof.
Anil Jain, a University Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan State University, says the wizardry world of identifying people by unique physical characteristics — fingerprints, the landscape of the iris, the digitized appearance and structure of their faces – is filled with promise.
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Most modern “machine translation” systems, including the highly rated one created by USC’s Information Sciences Institute, rely on brute force correlation of vast bodies of pre-translated text from such sources as newspapers that publish in multiple languages. The makers of a University of Southern California computer translation system are teaching their software something new: English grammar.