{"id":50761,"date":"2021-10-06T12:46:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T16:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=50761"},"modified":"2021-10-13T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:31:45","slug":"woodward-leads-panel-on-face-recognition-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2021\/10\/06\/woodward-leads-panel-on-face-recognition-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodward Chairs Panel on Facial Recognition Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On October 5, 2021, <\/span>John D. Woodward Jr.<\/a>, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, <\/span>chaired and moderated a panel on face recognition technologies at the Connect: ID Conference<\/a>, held in Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The panel featured Stephanie Schuckers, Director, Center For Identification Technology Research (Citer), Clarkson University; Arun Vemury, Director, Biometric And Identity Technology Center, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Edwin Coello, a Sergeant in the New York City Police Department; and Patrick Grother, Biometrics Evaluator, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). T<\/span>opics discussed included emerging issues in facial recognition, public perceptions of the technology, facial recognition in government use cases, and policy concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn more about the Connect: ID Conference online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/o:p>John D. Woodward, Jr<\/a>. is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. During his twenty-year CIA career, John served as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington D.C., East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. His publications include\u00a0<\/span>Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(McGraw-Hill, 2003) and\u00a0<\/span>Army Biometric Applications: Identifying and Addressing Sociocultural Concerns<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(RAND, 2001). Read more about Professor Woodward on his\u00a0<\/span>faculty profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During Professor Woodward’s Connect: ID Conference panel, subject matter experts discussed emerging issues in facial recognition, public perceptions of the technology, facial recognition in government use cases, and policy concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":50763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8411],"tags":[11784,8535,8904,8662,9809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50761"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50831,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50761\/revisions\/50831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}