John Daugman
John Daugman (born February 17, 1954 in the USA ) is an American computer scientist .
John Daugman was born the son of a Swede and a Latvian. He earned his BA and Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught there until he went to Cambridge University in 1991 . There he teaches and researches as an expert in computer-aided image processing at the Computer Laboratory .
In the scientific and industrial world, John Daugman became known in particular for his pioneering work in biometric iris recognition . All currently (2007) available on the global market commercial iris recognition systems are based on the developed by him iris code - algorithm .
Web links
- Website of John Daugman (University of Cambridge)
- National Inventors Hall of Fame (USA). Biography John Daugman
- Literature by and about John Daugman in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Your Eyes Can Tell No Lies , article in Time November 18, 2001
- ↑ Inventor of Iris Recognition, Professor John Daugman, Joins L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , L-1 Identity Solutions press release on February 6, 2007
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| SURNAME | Daugman, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th February 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |