The Lockheed Martin BEACON lecture on 2/6/08 will run from 12 Noon to 1PM (Eastern Time) and will consist of a presentation by Cross Match on their latest fingerprint and iris capture technology. 

Presenters will be Thomas Buss, Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, and Dr. James Cambier, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Iris Technologies.

Mr. Buss joined Cross Match Technologies in September of 2000 and helped guide the company from its initial entry into the Livescan market to its current position as a leading world wide provider of high quality fingerprint and identity management products and services.  He has extensive experience in technical management, manufacturing, field deployment, customer development, and service.  Mr. Buss received his BSEE from the University of Illinois and his MBA from Nova University.

Dr. Cambier joined CrossMatch Technologies in January 2008 and has overall responsibility for technology research and development related to iris recognition products.  In this capacity he directs the design of iris capture hardware being developed by the company and the development of iris acquisition, quality assessment, and matching algorithms for integration into iris products.  Prior to joining CrossMatch Dr. Cambier served as Vice President, Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Iridian Technologies, Inc.  Dr. Cambier served as Vice-Chair of the INCITS M1.3 Task Group on Biometric Data Interchange Formats, and was the editor and principle author of the ANSI/INCITS 379 Iris Image Interchange Format standard and ISO/IEC 19794-6: Biometric Data Interchange Formats: Iris Format for Data Interchange.  James Cambier received the BSEE degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester.