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Henry Faulds, a Scottish physician and scientist, publishes the first paper on forensic fingerprinting. He outlines a specific methodology for the collection, and processing, of fingerprints.
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Juan Vucetich, an Argentine Police Officer, makes the first criminal fingerprint identification based on Galton pattern types.
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The New York State Prison system began the first systematic use of fingerprints in the U.S. for criminals.
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The U.S. Department of Justice forms the Bureau of Criminal Identification in Washington, DC to provide a centralized reference collection of fingerprint cards.
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The Identification Division of the FBI is established.
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Facial recognition technology is pioneered by Woody Bledsoe, Helen Chan Wolf, and Charles Bisson in 1964 as part of their collective study on pattern recognition intelligence (PRI).
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Retina scanning technology is pioneered by John Daugman, who developed and patented the first algorithms for computer-aided identification of iris patterns in 1994.
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Motorola is the first company to offer a fingerprint scanner in a smartphone (the Motorola Mobility Atrix 4G).
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Android comes out with the first smartphone with facial recognition.
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Automotive technologies include fingerprint recognition sensors, such as the early Mercedes S-Class Model.
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Apple released the iPhone X with Face ID to unlock.