NIST HOSTS BIOMETRIC CONFERENCE.In September 2000, NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. hosted the Biometric Consortium The Biometric Consortium is a US government sponsored consortia created by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). 2000 Conference (BC2000). With an attendance of more than 600 people, the conference brought together executives of private industry and government officials as well as users and developers of personal authentication systems The combination of authentication server and authenticator, which may be separate devices or both reside in the same unit such as an access point or network access server. The authentication server contains a database of user names, passwords and policies, and the authenticator physically and IT users. Conference highlights included the release of Version 1.0 Beta of the BioAPI Reference Implementation developed by the BioAPI Consortium and the announcement of NISTs BioAPI Interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. Test Bed, developed in support of the BioAPI industrial effort. These developments represent important milestones for the biometrics industry and users of biometric technologies. The conference included informative presentations ranging from applications of biometric technologies and the business case for biometrics to government programs and initiatives, research on future technologies, metrology metrology Science of measurement. Measuring a quantity means establishing its ratio to another fixed quantity of the same kind, known as the unit of that kind of quantity. , biometric assurance, and emerging standards. Exhibitors represented private industry, industry consortiums, and government agencies. BC2000 was part of NIST's Biometrics Week. Meetings co-located with the conference included the kick-off meeting of a new NIST initiative (NIST's Biometrics Interoperability, Performance, and Assurance Working Group, which will operate under the umbrella of the Biometric Consortium), a BioAPI Consortium meeting, and meetings of the International Biometric Industry Association. |
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