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Letter: Smile please

Published 29 June 2002

From John Nash

As I always smile when I first meet a person and repeat the procedure when meeting them again, I got to wondering if smiling developed to help humans recognise one another in the same way it helps today’s computer facial recognition algorithms match faces (1 June, p 20).

Dublin

Issue no. 2349 published 29 June 2002

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