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Waters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2009
Biometrics has been making its way into school districts for the past decade. Biometric tools draw information from a person's identifying physical components, providing a virtually fail-safe level of protection for K-12 schools. In addition to their security uses, biometric systems are currently used in schools for cafeteria purchases, library…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Computers, Internet, Information Technology
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Emery, Jill – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2008
The age of networked research and networked data analysis is upon us. "Wired Magazine" proclaims on the cover of their July 2008 issue: "The End of Science. The quest for knowledge used to begin with grand theories. Now it begins with massive amounts of data. Welcome to the Petabyte Age." Computing technology is sufficiently complex at this point…
Descriptors: Information Networks, Data Processing, Pattern Recognition, Data Analysis