Fingerprinting Resources
Fingerprinting Books, Articles, and News
Project Gutenberg: The Science of Fingerprints EBook
Project Gutenberg provides an EBook of the official FBI manual on fingerprinting, Science of Fingerprints: Classification and Uses.
Galton.org: Francis Galton and Fingerprints
Sir Francis Galton's books, papers, articles, letters, interviews, and other published matter on the subject of fingerprints in PDF format.
Carnegie Mellon: Scalable Document Fingerprinting
Presents a system for document comparison based on textual similarity for related document searches and copyright/plagiarism protection.
Purdue University: Latent Fingerprint Chemical Imaging
Developed at Purdue, desorption electrospray ionization (or DESI), detects trace amounts of explosives, drugs or other materials left behind in fingerprints.
National Science Foundation: From Fingerprints to Fiberprints
Fingerprints left on a piece of research equipment sprouted nanofibers when they interacted with cyanoacrylate glue.
U.S. Government Fingerprinting
U.S. Federal Government: Biometrics.gov
Includes biometrics reference room, recommended biometric standards, and Subcommittee on Biometrics and Identity Management info.
Biometrics Catalog
Database of public information about biometric technologies including government documents, privacy impact assessments, and research reports.
National Institute of Standards and Technology: Matching Up Fingerprints
Includes NIST fingerprint interactive "Solving Crimes, Improving Security" and suspect fingerprint matching game.
U.S National Institute of Justice: Fast Capture Fingerprinting
NIJ has funded researchers to develop, evaluate, and improve the way fingerprints are taken.
FBI.gov: Taking Legible Fingerprints
Information on the nature of fingerprints and an outline on the techniques for taking legible fingerprints.
U.S. Dept of Homeland Security: How US-VISIT Works
Under US-VISIT, U.S. Customs and Border Protection use inkless, digital, 10-fingerprint scanners to collect visitors' biometrics.
U.S. Department of Defense: Biometrics Task Force
Government organization dedicated to protecting the nation through the employment of biometric technologies and capabilities.
Human Genome Program: DNA Forensics
How forensic identification works, understanding its accuracies, its interesting uses, and databases such as CODIS
Argonne National Laboratory: Human Clone Fingerprints
If you were to clone a human, would the fingerprints of the clone and original human be the same?
The Biometrics Consortium
Sponsored by the US government, this consortium organizes a yearly biometrics conference. Website contains info about past conferences and current government and standards activity
U.S. Marshals: Fingerprint Information
United States Marshals website asks what type of fingerprints do you have and why fingerprint identification?
University Fingerprinting
Michigan State University: Biometrics Research
Recent Publications, projects, presentations, announcements, and upcoming conferences in the field of biometrics.
Student Society for the Advancement of Biometrics
Official home of the Student Society for the Advancement of Biometrics at West Virginia University.
University of Kent: Information Security and Biometrics
Widely recognized world expert in biometrics and security and is currently working with leading industrial companies.
U.S. State Fingerprinting
West Virginia: Biometrics
Listing of West Virginia's companies, government agencies, and universities in the highly competitive biometrics market.
Arizona Fingerprinting - Arizona: Board of Fingerprinting
California Fingerprinting - California: Fingerprint Submissions
Colorado Fingerprinting - Colorado: Educator Fingerprinting
Florida Fingerprinting - Florida: Fingerprinting Application Site
Illinois Fingerprinting - Illinois: Criminal History Information
Kansas Fingerprinting - Kansas: Fingerprint-Based Record Check
Maine Fingerprinting - Maine: Fingerprint Registration Service
Maryland Fingerprinting - Maryland: Background Checks
New Jersey Fingerprinting - New Jersey: Live Scan Electronic Fingerprinting Process
Ohio Fingerprinting - Ohio: Fingerprint Submission
Texas Fingerprinting - Texas: Educator Fingerprinting
Wyoming Fingerprinting - Wyoming: Criminal History Checks
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