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  Boston Chapter, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Meeting

                  Tuesday, 12 September, 2000
       Informal Discussion: 6:00 P.M.; Program: 6:30 P.M.
              Natural MicroSystems, Framingham, MA


                  IS THAT YOU, MASTER LUKE?

            Face Recognition and its Applications
              to E-Commerce and Everything Else

                     Dr. William D. Ross
                    Principal Researcher
                        Viisage Corp.


                          ABSTRACT

   We have all expected any decent robot to be able to recognize
faces. This ability is no longer in the future. Its use can be
expected not just in Mobile Robots of the Star Wars kind, but
also in the web crawling robots roaming the internet. Viisage
corporation is a leader in face recognition technology. This
technology neatly solves many difficulties in contemporary life.
Its use can help prevent fraud and also eliminate the need to
memorize personal identification numbers and passwords which we
all seem to have too many of. Come and learn more about this
important new technology from one of its pioneers.


                       ABOUT THE SPEAKER

   Dr. Ross earned his BSEE from Cornell University in 1988 and
his Ph.D. in vision, image processing, and pattern recognition
from Boston University in 1994. He spent five years doing
postdoctoral academic research in visualization, image
processing, and pattern recognition at Boston University and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Research
Associate and as a Research Professor. He has published over 30
technical papers and presented at over 20 major conferences.
Since 1997 he has worked with MIT Lincoln Laboratory on
visualization applications for the Department of Defense. For the
past several years he was the technical and project lead on a
Lincoln Laboratory team focused on developing web-based
visualization technologies for real 3D environments.


                     ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

   The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society will meet Tuesday,
September 12, 2000, in the Training Room at Natural MicroSystems,
100 Crossing Blvd., Framingham, MA at 6:00 P.M. for informal
discussions and for the formal presentation between 6:30 and 7:30
P.M.  The group will have dinner afterwards at "Not Your Average
Joe's" restaurant, where more conversations can take place with
the guest speakers. The meetings are open to the general public,
and all are welcome at the dinner afterwards.  For more
information contact:

	Bruce Levens
	508-271-1233
	BCL0@alum.mit.edu


                             DIRECTIONS


   Natural MicroSystems is conveniently located in Framingham,
Massachusetts, at the intersection of Route 9 and Interstate 90
(Mass Pike) and is only five minutes from Interstate 495. The
address is: 100 Crossing Blvd., Framingham, MA 01702.

   From the Mass Pike, take the exit for Route 9 West (Exit 12)
in Framingham. Once on Route 9, get into the left-hand lane. (The
Tara hotel is on the right.) Take the first left-hand exit onto
Crossing Boulevard. Follow Crossing Boulevard up over Route 9
into the industrial park. Natural MicroSystems is on the right.
(It is a red brick building, currently the only completed
building on the right.)