ADVISORY/IEEE And New York Academy of Sciences Present "Surveillance Technologies: Protecting Public Places and Tracking Terror" - Wednesday, October 31, 3PM in New York.

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ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Oct. 31)

JERSEY CITY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2001

Visionics' CEO, Dr. Joseph Atick to Discuss Role of

Biometric Technologies

Who: Dr. Joseph J. Atick, Visionics' Chairman and CEO will discuss how
    facial recognition works and the role it plays in combating
    terrorism. He will also address the social, ethical, legal issues
    surrounding the use of the technology.

    Visionics Corporation (Nasdaq:VSNX), the worldwide leader in
    identification technologies and systems. Through its respective
    business lines, the company delivers enabling technology,
    platforms, products and systems for biometric identification, with
    a specific focus on facial recognition and forensic-quality
    fingerprint identification. The company's face recognition system
    is being used in Iceland's Keflavik Airport, Tampa, Florida in the
    U.S. and in the City of Birmingham and the London Borough of
    Newham in the U.K.

What: IEEE/NY Academy of Sciences Press Briefing, "Surveillance
    Technologies: Protecting Public Places and Tracking Terror."

When: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at 3:00PM EST.

Where: New York Academy of Sciences
       2 East 63rd Street
       New York, NY

Who:  Dr. Joseph Atick, Chairman and CEO, Visionics Corporation
      Dr. Stephen John Maybank, University of Reading, U.K.
      Michael A. Vatis, Dartmouth College Hanover, NH
      Barry Steinhardt, Associate Director, American Civil Liberties
      Union
      Robert Freeman, Executive Director, NYS Committee on Open
      Government