[UCI-Calit2] Hosts May 25 CRITO Hour on "Fingerprinting: Between Humans and Machines"

[Shellie Nazarenus]

Mark your calendar and plan to join us for the next CRITO Hour!

When: Wed., May 25, 2005 from 11:45 am - 12:50 pm (light lunch provided)

Where:  Calit2 Building at UCI in Room 3008

Topic:  "Fingerprinting: Between Humans and Machines." 

Presenter: UCI Assistant Professor Simon Cole, School of Social Ecology

Simon will begin by discussing problematic of "the fingerprint examiner"
as an occupational category and as a knowledge claimant. Then, he will
discuss some issues raised by the increasing automation of fingerprint
identification tasks, and conclude by discussing some ways in which ICT
may have an impact in this contested field.

 Simon A. Cole specializes in the historical and sociological study of
the interaction between science, technology, law, and criminal justice.
He is the author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and
Criminal Identification (Harvard University Press, 2001)
<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/COLSUS.html> , which was awarded the
2003 Rachel Carson Prize
<http://4sonline.org/carson.htmRachel%20Carson%20Prize>  by the Society
for Social Studies of Science. He is a recipient of a CAREER Award
(2004-2009), the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award
for new faculty members. Dr. Cole has spoken widely on the subjects of
fingerprinting, scientific evidence, and science and the law, and he has
consulted and testified as an expert witness on the validity of
fingerprint evidence. He has also written for The New York Times
Magazine and Lingua Franca. His current interests are the sociology of
forensic science and the development of criminal identification
databases and biometric technologies. He teaches courses on Forensic
Science and Society, Surveillance and Society, and Science, Technology,
and Law. 

 

 

 

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