The BSPA Lab has an active webinar schedule, covering topics from fingerprint interoperability, performance, testing and evaluation, human biometric sensor interaction, as well as educational outreach programs. Each seminar will be hosted via Adobe Presenter, and will also have a telephone number. Some webinars will be broadcast via Skype. Below is a list of the current webinars we are planning on hosting in December and January. Please register for more information. For continued updates on the seminars and our research, please join our twitter group.

BioAPI Java, Wednesday, February 24, 2010 from 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM ET
Dial In number: 765-496-3791
Virtual Meeting Room URL: https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu/bioapijava/

Online Education Offerings Discussion and overview of the various online education offerings presented by faculty in the Biometrics Lab.

Weekly Research Status Updates
Each Thursday at 6:15pm, we will be hosting an online weekly research status. These brief teleconferences will highlight the progress undertaken by students in the lab.

Archive of Past Webinars

Healthcare and Biometrics, Wednesday, January 13, 2010 from 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM ET
Presentation Slides

Fingerprint Sensor Interoperability and its Impact on System Performance, Wednesday, Feb 3, 2010 from 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM ET
Presentation Slides

We have started to upload our presentations and publications into Slideshare.net.

BSPA Labs is now on twitter. You can follow us and tweet us.
If you are not following us, you are missing out on:

• Cutting edge biometrics research
• Online events
• Collaboration opportunities with others of similar interests

Dr. Eric Kukula will be presenting the paper “A definitional framework for the human-biometric sensor interaction model” co-authored with Dr. Steve Elliott at the SPIE Symposium on SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, on April 5th 2010 in Orlando, FL., as part of the Biometric Technology for Human Identification VII Conference.

Purdue University’s Biometrics Standards, Performance, and Assurance Laboratory (BSPA) is offering an online education program on biometric technologies and applications. This self-paced, noncredit educational program provides a private virtual classroom that can be used during a time-frame that’s convenient for participants. The biometrics online education program is designed for security professionals, managers, and individuals who want to learn about biometric technologies and its applications. Similar to the certificate of completion, completion of this course will provide you with continuing education unit credits.

Information
* Cost $900
* Time of completion Up to 1 year
* Laboratory Activities Optional
* Learning Material Provided
* CISSP CPE Credits
* Continuing Education Unit Credits

Register online for instant course access.

Biometrics CEU Brochure

We will be having a series of online question and answer sessions to highlight the certificate of completion and distance education programs.

Purdue University’s Biometrics Standards, Performance, and Assurance Laboratory (BSPA) is offering an online education program on biometric technologies and applications. This self-paced, noncredit educational program provides a private virtual classroom that can be used during a time-frame that’s convenient for participants. The biometrics online education program is designed for security professionals, managers, and individuals who want to learn about biometric technologies and its applications.

Information
* Cost $700
* Time of completion Up to 1 year
* Laboratory Activities Optional
* Learning Material Provided
* CISSP CPE Credits
* Certificate of Completion

Register online for instant course access.

Biometrics-Certificate of Completion Brochure

We will be having a series of online question and answer sessions to highlight the certificate of completion and distance education programs.

Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate (32-bit edition, or 64-bit edition with 32-bit browser)

* Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or later
* Mozilla Firefox 3.x
* Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition, or 64-bit edition with 32-bit browser)

* Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
* Mozilla Firefox 2.x, 3.x
* Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2

* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later
* Mozilla Firefox 2.x, 3.x
* Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Windows hardware requirements

* Windows XP: 450MHz Intel® Pentium® II or faster processor or equivalent (128MB of RAM, 512MB recommended)
* Windows Vista: 1GHz Intel Pentium II or faster processor or equivalent (1GB of RAM)

Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5, 10.6 (Intel)

* Mozilla Firefox 2.x, 3.x
* Safari 2.x, 3.x
* Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)

* Safari 2.x
* Mozilla Firefox 2.x, 3.x
* Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS hardware requirements

* 500MHz PowerPC G3 or faster or 1.83GHz Intel Core™ Duo or faster processor
* 128MB of RAM (512MB recommended)

Linux®:
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.x, 5.x; Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.x

* Mozilla Firefox 2.x, 3.x
* Adobe Flash Player 9 (Adobe Flash Player 10 available for Red Hat 5)

Solaris™

* Mozilla Firefox 2.x, 3.x
* Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Additional requirements

* Bandwidth: 56Kbps

The online seminars use Adobe Presenter. You will need the following system requirements:
* Internet Explorer 5.5, 6, or 7 (Windows)
* Mozilla 1.x (Windows)
* Firefox 1.5 or 2.x (Windows or Mac)
* Safari 1.x or 2.x (Mac)
* Netscape 8 (Windows)
* 100MB of available hard-disk space
* 800×600 screen resolution (1,024×768 recommended)

Additional requirements for viewing

* Adobe® Flash® Player 8 or 9 for Windows or Mac
* Flash Player 9 for Linux® or Solaris™
* Adobe Reader 9 ® for viewing PDF files created with Adobe Presenter

We have a number of different seminars on offer, including informational and research results. We also have a selection of on-demand seminars. If you are interested in those, you will need to register. For system requirements, please see our support page.

Biometric Standards, Performance, and Assurance Laboratory will be hosting the December 2009 meeting of M1. This committee serves as the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (U.S. TAG) for the international organization ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 on Biometrics, which was established in June 2002. As the U.S. TAG to SC 37, M1 is responsible for establishing U.S. positions and contributions to SC 37, as well as representing the U.S. at SC 37 meetings. INCITS is the primary U.S. focus of standardization in the field of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). INCITS also serves as ANSI’s Technical Advisory Group for ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1. JTC 1 is responsible for International standardization in the field of Information Technology.