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Session I: Scientific Evidence and the Law
Opening Remarks
Chair: Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University |
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Shirley S. Abrahamson, Chief Justice, State of Wisconsin, Supreme Court
Legal Standards for Expert Testimony |
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Discussion
Margaret Berger, Brooklyn Law School |
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Joel Cohen, Rockefeller University |
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Donald Kennedy, Stanford University |
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Ronald L. Singer, Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office |
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Session II: DNA Fingerprinting and Related Genetics Advances: From the Laboratory to the Crime Scene to the Courts I
Chair: Donald Kennedy, Stanford University
Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University
Advances in Population Genetics: The Science and Its Uses |
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James Crow, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Early DNA Fingerprinting Techniques and Scientific Issues |
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David Kaye, Arizona State University
Early DNA Fingerprinting Techniques and Legal Acceptance |
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Session III: DNA Fingerprinting and Related Genomics Advances: From the Laboratory to the Crime Science to the Courts II
Chair: Margaret Berger, Brooklyn Law School
Bruce Budowle, FBI
Laboratory Testing of DNA for Forensic Use: Protocols, Quality Assurance, Training and Accreditation Issues |
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Roger Kahn, Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office |
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David Faigman, Hastings College of Law, University of California, San Francisco |
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Session IV: Expert Scientific Evidence and Testimony
Chair: David Donoho, Stanford University
Colin Aitken, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
The Evaluation and Interpretation of Scientific Evidence |
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Elizabeth Loftus, University of California, Irvine
Illusions of Memory and Loss of Justice |
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Richard L. Garwin, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Synchronization of the Acoustic Evidence in the Assassination of President Kennedy |
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Session V: Identification Through Biometrics I
Chair: Margaret Berger, Brooklyn Law School
Simon Cole, University of California, Irvine
A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification |
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Anil Jain, Michigan State University
Uniqueness of Fingerprints |
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Jennifer Mnookin, University of California, Los Angeles
Contrasting Fingerprint Evidence (Past and Future) with DNA Profiling from a Legal Perspective |
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Session VI: Identification Through Biometrics II
Chair: Roger Kahn, Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office
Richard Wildes, York University
Iris Scanning for Human ID |
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Jonathon Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Scientific Validation of Human ID Technologies |
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Discussion
David Donoho, Stanford University |
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David Faigman, Hastings College of Law, University of California, San Francisco |
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Session VII: Emerging Areas of Forensic Science
Chair: Douglas H. Ubelaker, Smithsonian Institution
Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
Joseph P. Campbell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Linguistics and the Science Behind Speaker Identification |
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William Freeman, MIT
The Validity of Digital Photographic Evidence |
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Thomas L. Bohan, MTC Forensics
New Approaches to Forensic Issues in Engineering Sciences |
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Michael A. Peat, Editor, Journal of Forensic Sciences
Forensic Toxicology |
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Discussion and Isolation of Key Themes and Topics
Chair: Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
David Donoho, Stanford University |
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Roger Kahn, Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office |
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Douglas H. Ubelaker, Smithsonian Institution |
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David Faigman, Hastings College of Law, University of California, San Francisco |
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Closing Remarks
Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University |
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