Fingerprint experts!
It is heartening to read in your 16 November issue, a technology report on the success of a local IT company, TigerITBD.com, in the global market of Automatic Fingerprint Identification System, and that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation intends to work with the company for the ID solution.
I would like to recall on this occasion two Bengalee pioneers of international system of fingerprint identification. More than one hundred years ago -- in 1897 -- two Bengalee fingerprint experts, Azizul Haque and Hem Chandra Bose, then working at Kolkata's Anthropometric Bureau developed the first modern system of classification of fingerprints. The Haque-Bose system was soon adopted officially by the Scotland Yard in Britain in 1901. It replaced the previous inaccurate systems and became the most widely used international system of classification of fingerprints. The FBI in the USA adopted the system in 1924 when the Congress passed an act to the effect. It had been often called the ``Henry system'' after the name of the then superior of Azizul Haque and Hem Chandra Bose at the Anthropometric Bureau (Mr. Edward R. Henry) who wrote a book describing the Haque-Bose system with the title ``The Classification and Use of Fingerprints''.
It is quite befitting that an IT-company from Bangladesh should make an international mark in fingerprint identification in the international scene again by developing, after more than a century, the most effective fingerprint matching solution that topped the list of a formidable group of competitors from high-tech counties like the US and Japan. TigerIT BD.com deserves our congratulations for this achievement and for keeping up the tradition!
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