American Airlines Sponsors International Biometric Group's Comparative Biometric Testing.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2002 American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the announced today that it is an official sponsor of International Biometric Group's Comparative Biometric Testing scheduled to be completed in 2002. "We look forward to reviewing the results of IBG's evaluations, and gaining a third party perspective on the real world performance of leading biometric technologies." said Patrick Morin, Managing Director, at American Airlines. IBG's Comparative Biometric Testing, the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. industry standard for evaluating biometrics, details the short-term and long-term enrollment and verification capabilities of finger-scan, facial-scan, voice-scan, iris-scan and other biometric solutions. IBG's Testing also assesses user perceptions on ease-of-use, privacy and security. Round Three was completed in August, 2001 and Round Four will commence later this year. IBG IBG Informatie Beheer Groep (Netherlands) IBG Institute of British Geographers IBG International Biometric Group IBG Interbank GIRO (General Interbank Recurring Order) IBG Inter-Block Gap IBG Interblock Gap has been conducting formal biometric testing since 1998, and has gathered extensive data on the leading biometric system, including: AcSys, Advanced Precision, Ankari, AuthenTec, BES, BioPassword, Cyber-SIGN, Digital Persona Digital Persona (DP) is the electronic representation, an information model, of an individual's public personality based on and maintained by transactions or secondary information, and is intended for use as a proxy for the individual. , Ethentica, Identix, Iridian, Nuance, Precise Biometrics, Sagem, SecuGen, Sony, T-NETIX, Viisage and Visionics. About American Airlines American Airlines, the world's largest commercial airline, provides scheduled passenger and cargo services around the world. Along with its regional affiliates, American Eagle and American Connection, it offers more than 4,000 flights each day. Based in Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. , American Airlines is a founding member of the oneworld alliance. About International Biometric Group International Biometric Group is the leading biometric integration and consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , addressing the identification and authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. needs of mid to large size organizations. IBG works on behalf of both private and government clients to evaluate, design, and integrate biometric solutions for Internet applications, public sector programs, network security, point of sale applications, physical access and time and attendance systems. Learn more at http://www.biometricgroup.com. |
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