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Saanich residential care building on fast track
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Christine van Reeuwyk News staff
Construction of a residential care unit in Saanich will break ground as soon as possible, a decision made in the wake of Oak Bay council quashing a partner project last week. Oak Bay voted down requested height and parking variances to redevelop Oak Bay Lodge as a 320-bed dementia care facility, operated by Baptist Housing on behalf of the Vancouver Island Health Authority. The tandem project is a seven-storey, 260-bed facility at Mount View Heights on Carey Road in Saanich. The two buildings were designed to replace 580 residential care beds in Greater Victoria, but VIHA will now seek a new site for the building once planned for Oak Bay. VIHA president and CEO Howard Waldner said that in the meantime, the Mount View Heights project would forge ahead as planned. “We’re going to be proceeding to finalizing that,” Waldner said, noting that Saanich approved the project more than a year ago. “(Saanich) dealt with this very expeditiously and we’ll be moving forward to get that one under construction as soon as we can.” VIHA, Baptist Housing and the Capital Regional Hospital District have partnered in a $125-million project to replace beds at the existing Oak Bay Lodge and at Mount Tolmie Hospital. “We will build the beds elsewhere, outside of Oak Bay,” Waldner said. “Oak Bay Lodge will close. “We’ll be giving the requisite one year notice to families of the move.” PLEASE SEE: Baptist Housing, Page A4
Groundbreaking computer security recognizes the unique way you type and move a mouse Photo illustration by Don Denton
UVic engineers have patented a system that can create a user profile by how someone uses a keyboard and mouse. The technology has drawn sharp interest from national governments, banks and security agencies.
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rumbs in the keyboard or questionable web browsing history aren’t the only ways to tell who’s been using your computer. A newly patented biometric technology makes it possible to identify the person at the monitor based on keystroke habits and mouse movements alone. Potential for the technology, developed over the last 12 years by Issa Traore, University of Victoria professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, and former PhD student Ahmed Ahmed, reaches well beyond the realm of surveilling a home office. The security of Internet banking, military communications and online testing stand to be revolutionized through the technology. It works by capturing and profiling user rhythms on the keyboard and mouse. This profile is then used to lock out any other
users from that account or computer. When applied to password logins, the security protocol can identify users within five or six seconds based on how they type in their password. Even if someone else types in your password, it’s unlikely they could match the subtle differences in keystroke timing and behaviour. It can also be set to continuously monitor a computer between login and logout – an application that requires about three to seven minutes of computer use, depending on how many keystrokes or mouse movements are made. In the event an intended user is called away from a work station and another user attempts to use the computer, the technology immediately recognizes an unintended user and locks them out. Biometric technology, which compares physical or behavioural traits to a database, includes fingerprint, facial or retinal scans. “Instead of a more traditional biometric
system, like retinal or fingerprint recognition, that requires expensive hardware and is limited by users only being able to access the network from a specific computer, our system can be used by anyone from any location,” Traore said. The system could solve the problem for universities of verifying student identification for high-level exams. “This is also a very accurate way of ensuring a student (taking an online exam) hasn’t given their password to someone else to take the exam, because right now we don’t have any other way to do that,” he said. In addition to development via 200 computer users at UVic, Traore tested the technology with software installed on his own home computer, where his 15-year-old son was locked out after he attempted to login under another family member’s unrestricted user account. PLEASE SEE: Technology, Page A4
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