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The Right Wireless

for the Job

Developing Practical Wireless Appli-

cations, Dean A. Gratton. Set forpublication in December, this book

explores the question of whether wirelessmanufacturers are using the right tech-nology for the right product, given theindustrys range of capabilities.The authordiscusses strengths and weaknesses ofcurrently available wireless technologies,

and,more specifically,draws the readers attention to the diversecollection of standardized and proprietary solutions available to

manufacturers.Gratton describes how each technology works and explores

overlapping, complementary, and competing technologies. Thebook looks at the suitability of wireless applications in these con-texts,and also considers the practicality of a wireless world as away to understand consumers and specific demographic groups.Additionally, the author compares the differences between per-sonal- and wide-area communications, considering personal-area technologies alongside 3G and WiMax.

Aimed at a technologically intermediate to advanced audience,the book is one of the first to discuss applications surroundingtechnologies such as ZigBee, near-field communications, andultra-wideband.The author talks about the Bluetooth 2.0, plus

the new EDR specification alongside some fundamentalintroductions to Wi-Fi,namely, 802.11i and 802.11n.

Digital Press; ISBN 1555583105; 50 pp.;$31.47.

GSM-3G

Centraland EasternEurope24-25 October 2006Bucharest, Romania

The two-day GSM-3G conference will

explore Central and Eastern Europe mar-

ket developments,as well as how to sustain

profitability in the competitive CEE market.

Topics of discussion include driving growth inthe CEE,CEE forecast analysis, and simplifying

regulations.Regional overview discussions will

cover case studies such as Vodafone Romanias

3G rollout, and Vipnets HSDPA rollout in

Croatia. Also, the conference will explore

integrating 3G and DVB-H TV services, and

options for 3G VAS.

Event visitors can listen to development-strat-

egy presentations such as those on 3G-to-4G

standardization and fixed-mobile convergence.

The conference will also assess potentially dis-

ruptive technologies, covering topics such as the

expansion of Wi-Fi in Europe, strategies forcommunicating and pricing the WiMax value

proposition, and a panel discussion of WiMax

versus 3G.

According to conference organizers, Informa

Telecoms & Media says that the total number

of Central and Eastern European GSM sub-

scribers passed 250 million at the start of

November 2005. Fueled by continued strong

growth in developing marketsparticularly in

Russia, Ukraine, and Polandthe milestone

was reached six to seven months after the region

passed the 200 million subscriber mark. Growth

still remains strong in 2006, and Informa fore-

casts indicate that the region is on track to pass

300 million subscriptions in 2007.Consequently,

conference organizers believe the region offers

good long-term growth prospects.

As of March 2006, a total of 13 W-CDMA net-

works had been launched commercially in the

CEE region, and four more were pre-commer-

cial.There are 18 additional regional W-CDMA

networks in the planning/deployment phase,

including largest-market networks in Poland,

Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

http://www.gsm-3gworldseries.com/cee/

Next-GenerationWireless

Next Generation Wireless Systems and

Networks, Hsiao-Hwa Chen andMohsen Guizani.

This book covers wireless systems and net-works. Chapter topics include wireless com-

munications fundamentals, 2G and 3G mobile cellular systems,and MIMO/ multi-user signal processing in Beyond-3G wireless.

Although the book is aimed at specialists,it includes essentialbackground information as well.For example,the text discussesbasics of wireless communications such as 3G wireless standards,spread spectrum and CDMA systems, It goes on to introduce3G standards,such as W-CDMA,CDMA2000 and TD-SCDMA.Beyond that, it looks at more futuristic topics, including cogni-tive radio technology and 3GPP E-UTRA technology.Further,the book addresses emerging wireless communication systemsand networks such as Super-3G technology, 4G wireless,UWB,

OFDMA and MIMO.John Wiley & Sons; ISBN 0470024348; 512 pp.; $120.

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Mobile Business Expo31 October-3 November 2006Chicago

Wireless technology can give your company a

competitive advantage through increased pro-

ductivity, better customer care,and more timely

communication and information exchange; but creating

that mobile advantage is the trick.Mobile Business Expo

is a three-day conference intended for business and IT

professionals who want to improve communication,

processes,and productivity using wireless technologies.

From field-worker support to RFID asset management,

IT managers and business managers must collaborate

to develop an integrated mobility strategy. The exposcase studies,demonstrations,workshops,and conference

tracks cover the ingredients necessary to build a mobile

workforce and leverage wireless technology across asset

management systems.

Visitors can learn how to integrate technologies such

as WLANs, voice over WLAN,mobile broadband,field

and sales force applications,RFID, MESH, and WiMax.

The conference will also explore topics such as future

developments in the wireless LAN 802.11 standard, best

practices in securing and managing wireless systems, and

extending legacy business application across a mobile

infrastructure Business issues include customer rela-

tionship management,fixed/mobile convergences role inenterprise communications, future wireless develop-

ments to watch, and which technologies to consider now.

The conference will cover topics such as evolving

metro-area access (metroscale Wi-Fi, mobile WiMax,

and broadband cellular), threat analysis, and vulnera-

bility management in a mobile world. Other topics

include unified communications and data collection

devices.

http://www.mobilebusinessexpo.com/ index.php

IEE Mobility

Conference25-27 October 2006Bangkok, Thailand

IEE Mobility Conference and Exhibition is a mobile-

technologies event that features a three-day menu of

keynote speeches, symposiums, technical presenta-

tions, and industry updates.Each day, keynote speakers

will provide mobile-industry updates on topics such as

technologies, standards, applications, and mobile

devices.

Industry presentations are technology-specific how-

to sessions for developers and system integrators.Theindustry tracks cover areas including Palm OS,

Windows, Java, and Symbian application development

environments,network integration to a mobile (General

Packet Radio Service and 802.11 wireless local area net-

works) environment, and working with mobile-device

platforms.

Oral technical-presentation tracks discuss research on

next-generation systems, latest operating systems, soft-

ware development platforms, networking technologies,

and mobile device capabilities.

Also included are research papers that provide

glimpses of near- and long-term trends. Special sessions

cover topics such as trends and technical challenges ofnext-generation mobile communication systems,ad hoc

and sensor networks, IP mobility, and user interface

design.

Mobile-realm usability-engineering topics will include

the human-computer interaction perspective, parallel-

processing improvement over wireless communication,

and location discovery and mobility modeling/forecast-

ing in wireless networks.

http://www.mobilityconference.org

UnlicensedBands

Coexistence in Wireless Networks:

Challenges and System-Level So-

lutions in the Unlicensed Bands,Nada Golmie.The increasing popular-ity of wireless networks makes inter-

ference and crosstalk between multi- ple systemsinevitable. Set for publication in September, this bookdescribes techniques for quantifying these disruptions and

their performance effects on unlicensed-band wireless net-works. It also presents system-level solutions, advocating

the need for new hardware implementations.The book starts with basic concepts and wireless proto-

cols before moving on to interference-performance eval-uation, interference modeling, and coexistence solutions.It concludes with common misconceptions and pitfalls.Theauthor illustrates her theory by referencing real-world sys-tems such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

Case studies and illustrations should make this bookinteresting for electrical engineering and computer sciencegraduate students, WLAN and WPAN systems designers,practitioners developing new interference suppression tech-niques, and general users of merging wireless technology.

Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0521857686; 192 pp.;$70.

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IT Worlds Wireless

http://wireless.itworld.com

This site, managed byIT World, provides

information on wireless technology.

Links are organized in news and topic sections

along the left side of the page.The news section con-

tains a sampling of breaking wireless news headlines.

The topics section is divided into areas including

application development, network management,

products and services,standards and regulations,and

trends and technologies.The home page also contains

links to webcasts,analyst briefings,white papers,and

newsletters.

One of the offerings in the white papers section ison benchmarking voice over IP over Wi-Fi (Vo-Fi).

The paper claims that benchmarking wireless systems

is difficult, with many variables and elements. This

Technology Note documents the results of a voice

benchmark run on a properly instrumented test

configuration.

developerWorks:Wireless Technology

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/wireless/

This Web site is IBMs technical resource for devel-

opers.The site provides tools, code,and education for

DB2,eServer, Lotus,Rational,Tivoli,and WebSphere,

as well as open standards information on Web serv-

ices, Wireless, Linux, XML, and Java technologies.

The developerWorks wireless technology zone

stores hundreds of articles, tutorials, and tips for

developers that use wireless technology and related

applications. With a massive amount of available

information,this page serves as both an overview and

starting point for users who want to learn about wire-

less technology. The page describes wireless basics

within the overall context of the technology, especiallyas it pertains to application development and e-busi-

ness.The page also offers starting points for relevant

developerWorks articles, tutorials,tips,IBM learning

services education, webcasts, workshops, and IBM

products.

The technical library sectionwhich links off the

main pagecontains a wireless technology articles list.

Visitors can view the list by product, title, topic,or key-

word, and sort results. Wireless technology tips and

tricks are also available. Additionally, this page offers

free wireless-technology online tutorials from

developerWorks for beginner to advanced developers.

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RFID in the

Enterprise

The January 2006 issue ofIEEEPervasive Computing focuses onapplications of RFID (radio fre-

quency identification),a wireless com-munication technology that letscomputers read the identity of inex-pensive electronic tags from a dis-tance, without requiring a battery inthe tags. No becoming a competitive

edge for companies like Wal-Mart and FedEx, RFID ispoised for yet another wave of innovative use,as the tech-

nologies mature and become less expensive.This special issue begins with an Introduction to RFID

from Roy Want,a principal engineer at Intel Research.Heoutlines the basics of RFID and what challenges stillremain.

One article of this special issue tells how Fraport AGused RFID in facilities maintenance at FrankfurtInternational Airport. Europes second largest airport,Frankfurt handled more than 50 million passengers andalmost 500,000 aircraft arrivals and departures in 2004.Facilities maintenance is a huge task, requiring specificidentification for thousands of pieces of equipment.This article tells about how the company successfully

deployed RFID to tag these items, first starting with apilot project.

Another article describes an RFID-based system totrack manufacturing lots. Infineon Technologies uses thissystem in its wafer fabrication facility in Villach,Austria.The system combines active RFID, passive RFID, andultrasound sensors to track plastic wafer boxes and wafercassettes in the companys chip-manufacturing process.Itsbeen in use for almost two years and has proved to be reli-able and efficient in localizing and communicating withmany moving physical objects.

Find out about these and other RFID applications in

the January issue of Pervasive, http://www.computer.org/

pervasive.

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All Linux Devices

http://alllinuxdevices.com/

All Linux Devices is a resource for profes-

sionals interested in staying aware of Linux and open

source community news.The site publishes all its Web con-

tentincluding free software and open source tools

using Linux software exclusively.

Your All Linux Devices (YLT) allows readers to receive

personalized news from a variety of sources,for example,

content filtered from the All Linux Devices newswire.The

Next Generation (LT-TNG) offers system improvements,

with enhanced control features available to members

(sign-up is free).Members can customize Talkbacks,which

appear in time order or thread order, and there is anoption to show full talkback bodies or just the talkback

subject and contributor.Triggers deliver news content as

it breaks, and are available to account members.

On the main page,non-registered members have access

to breaking news headlines that hyperlink to the main sto-

ries.A sidebar on the left-hand side of the page provides

links to new Linux products.

UNIX/LINUX

Open Source

BusinessConferenceEast17-18 October 2006Boston

This conference targets several kinds of IT work-

ers: those looking to leverage open source into

a business; those seeking to understand and

mitigate open source legal risks;and those interested

in talking to the industrys open source startups and

learning about business models.One of this conferences tracks is Stacking the

Enterprise Deck: The Rise of LAMP/J and its

Implications for Enterprise Infrastructure. Among

Java, .Net,LAMP, LAMJ, and J2EE the question

remains:Which open source stack,or combination

thereof, is the best fit for the enterprise? The tracks

panel will tackle the choice. Attendees will hear

industry leaders sound off with their views about

what to consider when implementing, integrating,

and deploying a collection of open source compo-

nents into an enterprises infrastructure.

Another track, Technology and Decentraliza-

tion, is a keynote presented by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal.Thiel believes that in the second

half of the 20th century, technological innovation

was a major driver of the world economys decen-

tralization, enabling small businesses to compete

with larger organizations.The globalization of infor-

mation tended to diversify power and enable people

to act much more locally than before. Thiel will

explore the question of whether this trend towards

decentralization will continue,culminating in world-

wide anarchocapitalism, or whether technologi-

cal innovative forcesespecially in the IT

industrymight cause the pendulum to reverse

toward some kind of economic or political central-

ization.

The Open Source: Moving Beyond Just

Software track will feature Sun Microsystems

president and COO Jonathan Schwartz discussing

open source repercussions. Many think of open

source merely as software bits and bytes. Sun, a

contributor of open source code, sees a world in

which open source also means commercially

viable communities, innovative Internet services,

hardware, and devices, and, ultimately, massive

economic opportunity.

http://www.osbc.com/live/13/

Do You Do Ubuntu?

Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks: APain-Free, Project-Based, Get-

Things-Done Guidebook, RickfordGrant

Ubuntu is a new version of Linuxintended specifically for novice users.NoStarch Press brings these characteristicstogether with Rickford Grant,a teacherand author experienced in explaining

technical concepts to novices.That makes this book a hands-on,project-based,take-it-slow, guidebook intended for thoseinterested inbut nervous aboutentering the Linux world.Using immersion-learning techniques favored by languagecourses, step-by-step projects build upon earlier tutorial con-cepts,helping readers absorb and apply what theyve learned.

Topics covered include how to

download and install free applications, games, and utilities; connect to the Internet and wireless networks; configure hardware, including printers, scanners,and remov-

able storage devices; watch DVDs, listen to music, and sync an iPod; and tackle more advanced tasks, such as compiling software

from source,and handling software based on Java, Python,and Tcl/Tk.

No Starch Press;ISBN 1-59327-118-2;360 pp.with CD;$34.95.

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A Window to Unix

Introduction to Unix/Linux,Christopher Diaz. The authorbelieves that Unix system has

steadily gained in popularity overthe years.Many businesses and edu-cational institutions as well as indi-viduals have begun using Unix/Linux, believing in its power, stabil-ity, reliability, and flexibility. This

book serves as a guide to Windows users interested in theconversion to Unix.

The author provides some background and knowledgeneeded to become familiar with the Unix/Linux environ-

ment and operations.For educational institutions,the bookpresents a broad Unix background for courses in comput-

Linux World

Conference and Expo14-17 August 2006San Francisco

Instructors will lead attendees in tracks focusing on

Linux and open source. Conference tracks include

mobile and embedded Linux, kernel and system

development, high-performance computing and virtu-

alization, the Linux desktop,network management and

interoperability, security, open source best practices,

open source and your business, and open source devel-

opment. Half-day tutorials will train IT solutions deci-

sion-makers on relevant issues and technologies.From a single server to a network of workstations, the

Linux environment can be a daunting one for adminis-

trators knowledgeable in other platforms. To help ease

the transition, the Linux Systems and Administration

tutorial will provide information about using Linux in the

real world.Starting with a single server and finishing with

a multi-server, 1,000-plus user environment, the course

will also accommodate question-and-answer interruption.

Conference organizers expect attendees who complete

the course to feel confident in their ability to set up and

maintain a secure Linux server with services.

Administrators and users are both concerned with

redundant protection of critical data. RAID (RedundantArray of Independent Discs) is a mechanism for ensur-

ing that protection, which Linux natively offers through

software offered as an alternative to the expensive hard-

ware typically associated with building a RAID. The

tutorial,How to Create,Destroy, and Recover Software

RAIDS under Linux will explain how to ensure

RAID1 and RAID5 protection of Linux systems.Watch

tutorial leaders create software RAID parti-

tions, construct RAID arrays, install Linux

directly to the RAID,and destroy one of thedisks; witness the continued operation and

booting of the system followed by a complete

recovery of the RAID to fully synchronized protection

again.

Hands-on labs will feature applications and tools train-

ing. For example,Write a Real Working Linux Driver

gives attendees a device for which they must write a

working Linux kernel driver that is acceptable in the

main Linux kernel tree.Instruction topics include under-

standing the kernel build process, understanding the

module load process, driver-author basics of the kernel

driver and device model, how to interact with a kernel

driver from userspace, understanding how to talk to the

hardware, and proper kernel coding guidelines.

Participants must have the ability to build, install, and

run a standard kernel.org kernel, as well as an interme-

diate understanding of the C language. They must also

bring a laptop with a working USB connection running

the latest version of the 2.6 kernel from kernel.org.

Healthcare Day and Financial Services Day are

one-day programs in which IT professionals from the

financial and healthcare industries interface directly with

their peers who are already using Linux and open source.

OSDL Kernel Sessions feature Linux kernel engineers

including Greg Kroah-Hartman and otherswho willexplain the kernel development process, how to con-

tribute to the process, and what it takes to submit new

device drivers into the machine kernel.

This conference also offers free Linux certification

testing from the Linux Professional Institute to all paid

conference attendees.

http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A

U

NIX/LINUX

ers,business,engineering,mathematics,and education.Theauthor also supplies basic user information to assist read-ers who wish to learn Unix independently.

A reader using any Unix version will find this book help-ful, as many of the concepts apply universally to allUnix/Linux systems.The book explores file creation andediting as well as how to develop professional-lookingtypeset documents. Other programming-related topicsinclude writing code that processes files and increases userconvenience, and how to build, run, debug, measure, andanalyze C++ program performance.

This book can serve as a resource for the student whowants to learn more about the Unix system, as well as a

guide for the individual making the transition to Unix.Charles River Media; ISBN 1584504498;448 pp.;$31.47.

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ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th

InternationalMiddlewareConference27 November 1 December 2006Melbourne, Australia

The Middleware Conference invites discussion about

recent advances in middleware design and con-

struction. This year, the conferences scope is the

design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of

distributed-systems platforms and architectures for

future computing environments. Middleware is distrib-uted-systems software that resides between applications

and underlying operating systems, network protocol

stacks, and hardware. Its primary role is to coordinate

application-component connection and interoperability

by bridging the gap between application programs and

lower-level hardware and software infrastructure.

Conference workshops include

International Workshop on Middleware for Sensor

Networks,

First International Workshop on Advanced Data

Processing in Ubiquitous Computing,

Middleware for Service Oriented

Computing,

Model Driven Development forMiddleware,

Fourth International Workshop on

Middleware for Grid Computing,

Fifth Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective

Middleware, and

Fourth International Workshop on Middleware for

Pervasive and Ad-hoc Computing.

The Middleware Doctoral Symposium will be held in

conjunction with Middleware 2006.MDS 2006 is a forum

where doctoral students can present their work. The

symposiums goals are to expose students to helpful crit-

icism before they defend their theses, and to foster dis-

cussions on future career directions. Topics of the

conference will include discussions on platforms and

architecture, middleware for Web services and Web-serv-

ice composition, middleware for cluster and grid com-

puting, peer-to-peer middleware solutions, and

event-based, publish/subscribe message-oriented mid-

dleware.

Systems-issues tracks will look at reliability, fault tol-

erance,general quality-of-service,and middleware scal-

ability.

http://2006.middleware-conference.org

UNIX/LINUX

Is the Switch Rightfor You?

Paradigm Shift: Seven Keys of

Highly Successful Linux and

Open Source Adoptions, MarkTeter.Some IT professionals believethat open source software providesmore opportunity for innovationthan commercial or proprietary soft-ware. Some organizations contendthat open source spurs more oppor-

tunities for technical innovation that encourages busi-ness innovation.This book targets executives, technologydecision-makers, and project managers who could ben-efit from a crash course on Linux and open source adop-tion. Written for those in charge of planning andimplementing strategies and infrastructure projects, thebook provides information and recommendations thathelp readers understand the principles behind Linux-based computing. It also discusses how to mitigate theassociated challenges.

Media Resource Technology;ISBN 0977343707;337 pp.;$49.95.

Sporting the Porting

Unix to Linux Porting: A Compre-

hensive Reference, Alfredo Men-doza, Chakarat Skawratananond,

Artis Walker. Increasingly, developers,architects, and project managers face thechallenge of porting their C,C++, and Javaapplications from Unix to Linux environ-ments.This book aims to be a completeguide to porting applications from three

Unix platforms:Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX.Three of IBMs Linux-porting specialists lead readers

through the entire project,from scoping and analysis to recod-ing and testing. The book presents a start-to-finish portingmethodology that discusses porting tasks and offers an assess-ment questionnaire for new project work. Readers can dis-cover what Linux offers in terms of APIs, library functions,versioning,system features, and toolsand their implicationsfor any project.

The authors also address each individual Unix platform,identifying specific porting challenges and best practice solu-tions.Application developers will learn about the differences

among Unix operating systems in todays IT infrastructure.Prentice Hall PTR; ISBN 0131871099; 720 pp.;$64.99.

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Detecting DoS Attacks

According to the article Denial-of-Service Attack-DetectionTechniques, (Glenn Carl and

colleagues,IEEE Internet Computing,Jan.-Feb. 2006), the Internet wasdesigned for the minimal processingand best-effort forwarding of anypacket, malicious or not. For cyberat-tackers motivated by revenge, pres-

tige, politics, or moneythis architecture provides anunregulated network path to victims.

Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks exploit this to target mis-sion-critical services. A quantitative estimate of worldwide

DoS attack frequency found 12,000 attacks over a three-week period in 2001.1 The2004 CSI/FBI Computer Crimeand Security Survey listed DoS attacks among the most finan-cially expensive security incidents.The magnitude of the inci-dence rate and potential recovery expense has garnered theinterest of security managers and researchers alike.

Despite these dire circumstances, the authors see light atthe end of the tunnel, in that there are several ways to detectsuch attacks and circumvent them.In this article, they sur-vey various approaches for detecting DoS flooding attacksnetwork-based attacks in which agents intentionally saturatesystem resources with increased network traffic.

See this article in the January-February 2006 issue ofIEEE

Internet Computing magazine.

Security from A to Z

Dictionary of Information Security

,Robert Slade. According to HalTipton CISSP (Certified Infor-

mation Security Professional), ISSAP(Information Systems Security Archi-tecture Professional),ISSMP (Informa-tion Systems Security ManagementProfessional), and author of the booksforeword, What is needed now in the

world of information security is a single glossary of termsusing the preferred definition for each term to be publishedand used throughout the world.I personally have come faceto face with this definition problem as the chief instructor

over the past dozen years for the International InformationSystems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2. In thatrole,I have developed several courses that addressed top-ics contained in the Common Body of Knowledge for theinformation security field that dealt with concepts and def-initions. I struggled continuously to select the most appro-priate definition for many of the most important terms.Asa result, I am supportive of the idea of publishing an officialglossary of terms for information security professionals andrelated personnel. Rob Slade has undertaken this difficulttask, and his Dictionary should prove to be one of the mosthelpful additions to the professional library of every oneof us working in the field of information security.

Syngress Publishing; ISBN 1597491152;300 pp.; $29.95.

ComputerSecurityResource Center

http://csrc.nist.gov

The Computer Security Resource Center

(CSRC) is a US government site devoted to

sharing information security tools and prac-

tices.Although some of the information of this

site targets the government vendor audience,there are large sections devoted to small busi-

ness and home users, too. For example,

recently posted draft publication Guidance

for Securing Microsoft Windows XP Home

Edition, shares tips and a checklist of meas-

ures that all home users should take.The small

business division lists several workshops avail-

able throughout the US on how to implement

information security for small business.

Another page (http://csrc.nist.gov/virus/)

gives a general introduction to computer

viruses and links to sources for specific topics.

BiometricConsortiumConference 2006Baltimore, Maryland19-21 September 2006

Sponsored by several US government agencies, includ-

ing the National Institute of Standards and Technology

and the National Security Agency (NSA), this confer-ence discusses recent technology advances, new initiatives,

as well as biometric business models and market strategies.

It also addresses trends in biometrics research; the devel-

opment and application of biometric technologies; and the

use of biometrics in government programs and commercial

applications.

The conference has three major tracks, one of which is

information/industry. This tracks first day starts with an

Introduction to Biometrics session and ends with a panel on

commercial biometrics solutions. Other sessions later in the

week focus on standards, system vulnerabilities, and remote

authentication.

http://www.biometrics.org/bc2006/index.htm

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