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Sep. 30, 2003 - Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed software that is able to identify computer users - with high accuracy - by their individual, distinct typing styles. This "behaviometric" technology may one day be part of security systems to prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to computers and sensitive data. The technology can be extended to other applications that involve a sufficiently complex interaction between humans and machines. Examples of such applications would include the identification of unauthorized drivers or pilots.The system prototype was developed in the Data Mining Lab of the Technion's Computer Science Faculty by students Ido Yariv and Mordechai Nisenson, under the supervision of Technion Professors Ran El-Yaniv and Ron Meir. The group's findings were presented on September 25, 2003 at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD) held in Cavtat, Croatia.