The British Computer Society Oxfordshire Branch have a meeting on
Biometrics this coming Thursday (20 January 2000) at 7:30pm. Details
below (no need to book - just turn up).
The Greater London Linux User Group are meeting on Saturday afternoon in
London's Docklands. More details should appear later in the week at
http://gllug.linux.co.uk/ .
Alasdair
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We are very pleased to have Mr Philip Bower from TSSI Ltd to speak about
Biometric Identification Systems.
We rely on keys, cards, PINs and passwords to verify the identity of
individuals in almost every area of life. Yet these can easily be copied or
learnt, and the incidence of fraud resulting from the use of another
person's access code is increasing rapidly.
The solution lies with techniques which automatically measure an
individual's unique physical attributes - Bometrics.
Biometric technology is a major defense against identity theft
Biometric technologies offer effective, low cost solutions that streamline
these traditional, labour intensive processes. Biometric devices are an
effective substitute because they create highly accurate digital records of
a person's physiological features. These records can be safely stored for
later comparison against a live image that is captured from the user at the
time the service or benefit is demanded. Biometric devices are designed to
be non-intrusive and user friendly units that recognise features such as an
iris, a voice, a signature, a fingerprint, a hand or a face. This enables
end users such as banks, merchants, government agencies, and employers to
have extraordinary control over transactions without inconveniencing or
embarrassing the customer.
TSSI are specialists in the field of the provision of biometric solutions.
We will be handing out CPD certificates at the end of the presentation. If
you haven't already done so, it would be a great time to start your CPD
records.
Please look at the web site
http://www.bcs.org.uk/branches/oxon/events.htm#five for a brief description
about this presentation.
We will be holding the meeting at the Wolfson Building, South Parks Road,
Oxford. Please use the link below to see a local map.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=451200&Y=206800
or if you require more information please email mailto:nls@bcs.org.uk
We look forward to seeing you there,
Neill Lawson-Smith
Branch Chairman
Apologies for the late posting of details.
As discussed at the meeting on Tuesday, there is a followup meeting tonight
at 8:30pm in seminar room B, Jesus College.
The college is on Turl Street (on the right as you come from Broad Street)
and I shall loiter outside to let people in.
Latecomers should ring the doorbell and the porter will direct them to the
seminar rooms.
Regards
Andrew
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Andrew J Jackson | RKT Group
OU Computer Society | Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory
http://www.ox.compsoc.net | Oxford University
Summary of the meeting last night:
After discussing lots of things that we might do (including putting on an
InstallFest) we decided initially to organise a series of four short
introductory Linux talks, one per week, aimed at Windows-literate people who
want to find out about Linux. We provisionally scheduled them to start
during the week commencing 14th February.
Working titles are (1) What Linux is (2) Installing Linux (3) & (4)
Getting started/Things you can do with Linux/Dialling your ISP/Escaping from
Windows - equivalent applications.
12 people took part; 2 sent apologies.
There will be a follow-up meeting tomorrow (Thursday) at 8.30pm at Jesus
College (entrance on Turl Street) to thrash out the details - outline of the
content, format, venue, how to select speakers, how/where to advertise them,
follow-up etc.
Alasdair.
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events(a)oxlug.org
Seminar room B has been booked for the meeting on Tuesday night to discuss
plans for a newbie oriented programme of events.
It will be available from 8pm.
Since the college is locked at this time, I shall loiter around to let
people in and tell the porter to direct any stragglers - there is a
doorbell you can use to attract his attention.
Regards
Andrew
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Andrew J Jackson | RKT Group
OU Computer Society | Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory
http://www.ox.compsoc.net | Oxford University
The OxLUG meeting on Sunday 9th Janary will be held in the Oxford
University Computing Laboratory at 6.30pm. The entrance is from Parks
Road. (http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oxinfo/maps/index.html for maps).
As an experiment, the format will be somewhat different from usual and
more interactive.
We'll begin with a discussion of a few of the many Linux Distributions
available - their strengths and weaknesses etc. - and maybe look at some
web sites which form useful Linux resources.
Then there'll be an opportunity for people to share any interesting
Linux-related news they have heard recently, and for people to ask
for help or advice from the more-experienced people present.
Finally - for those who wish to stay - we'll have a discussion about what
direction OxLUG should take this year.
Some points to consider:
Events - frequency; programme for 2000 - balance: basic vs technical;
tutorials (eg configuration, perl, shells, editors, GUI programming);
InstallFest; external speakers (who? what topics?); organisational
responsibility; finance; venues
Image/Recruitment - mission statement; logo; publicity (local press;
Linux Answers magazine); web site extension; corporate involvement
Mailing Lists - any suggestions for change, or carry on as now with
oxlug/oxlug-announce?
Afterwards, all being well, we'll reconvene in the Lamb and Flag.
Alasdair.
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events(a)oxlug.org