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The Collective Imagination is designed to explore some of the most compelling issues facing the world today and the ways that science and technology can help us address them. A changing cast of ScienceBlogs bloggers and GE scientists will work collaboratively to explore security and personal surveillance technology, the AIDS crisis, and the infrastructure and transmission of energy, among other topics. The blog is sponsored by GE, with all editorial content overseen by ScienceBlogs editors.

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laden.jpgGreg Laden is a blogger, writer and independent scholar who occassionally teaches. He has a PhD from Harvard in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, as well as a Masters Degree in the same subjects. He is a biological anthropologist, but for many years before going to graduate school to study human evolution, he did archaeology in North America. He thinks of himself as a biologist who focuses on humans (past and present) and who uses archaeology as one of the tools of the trade. Greg blogs regularly on ScienceBlogs at http://www.scienceblogs.com/gregladen/.

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joesalvo.jpgDr. Joseph J. Salvo attended Phillips Andover Academy, received his A.B. degree from Harvard University and his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University. Dr. Salvo joined the GE Global Research Center in 1988. His early work focused on the development of genetically modified bacteria and fungus, for the production of novel high performance polymers. In the mid 1990's he turned his group's efforts towards developing large-scale internet-based sensing arrays to manage and oversee business systems. Most recently, he and his team have developed a number of complex decision engines that deliver customer value through system transparency and knowledge-based computational algorithms. Commercial business implementations of his work are currently active in Europe, and Asia as well as North and South America.

PeterTu1.jpg Dr. Peter Tu received his undergraduate degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his doctorate from Oxford University England. In 1997, he joined the Visualization and Computer Vision Group at the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY. He has developed algorithms for the FBI Automatic Fingerprint Identification System. He is the principle investigator for the ReFace program, which has the goal of automatically computing the appearance of a person’s face from skeletal remains. Dr. Tu has also developed a number of algorithms for the precise measurement of specular and high curvature objects. His current focus is the development of intelligent video algorithms for surveillance applications.

Please visit From Edison's Desk, which is Peter's home blog at GE Global Research.

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September 30, 2009

Improving Monitoring Systems

Category: Monitoring systems

An old man walks down the stairs in his home. Suddenly, he trips and falls. No one is home to help him. But soon he hears the reassuring clanging of approaching sirens. The surveillance system installed in his home...

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September 29, 2009

What security is vs. what security looks like

Category: Digital security

Which is more advanced, the technology used by movie makers to depict security in action, or the technology itself?

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How to beat a fingerprint detection system.

Sorry Peter, I hope this wasn't a GE device! I love the fact that what makes it work is spitting on it....

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When your Roomba becomes self aware...

Category: robots

... well, not exactly, but close: More details here....

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September 28, 2009

Will ants trump worms in computer security?

Category: Fallacies

Can ants save us from worms?

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September 27, 2009

Fear and Loathing in the Browser Wars

Category: Digital security

It is kind of fun watching the new browser war heat up, with Google (a force not to be messed with lightly) lumbers on to the battlefield with Chrome, and Microsoft (a force not to be messed with lightly either)...

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September 26, 2009

FBI Data Mining Project: Details come to light

Category: Data mining

Any new technology is liable to be used for something other than originally intended. That is often a good thing. As I was growing up, I was told that our new digital wrist watches were a side effect of the...

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September 25, 2009

From 9/11 to today, where has and where can security go

Category: Device ID technology

On 9/11 I was in Cincinnati Ohio working on an optical metrology problem for measuring the shape of aircraft engine blades for GE Aircraft engines. That evening we were planning to fly back to Albany NY. However since all commercial...

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September 24, 2009

Security Technology News Bits

Standards For Identity Credentials And Authentication Systems Described ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2009) -- Two publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) describe new capabilities for authentication systems using smart cards or other personal security devices within and...

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September 23, 2009

What about Device Fingerprinting?

Category: Device ID technology

The cookie is a wonderful thing. I'm not talking about Grandma's "Tule Huuse" recipe for chocolate cookies, but the internet browser thing that most people learn to loathe. Internet cookies give your browser and the sites you visit a special...

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