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Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft
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18 July 2000 Source: http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/latest&f=00071801.glt&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml
US Department of State International Information Programs
Washington File _________________________________
18 July 2000
Researchers Develop New Information Retrieval Technology
(Damaged magnetically stored data now accessible) (660)
Researchers with the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have developed a way to salvage important data stored magnetically.
Credit cards, computer disks, audio cassettes and video tapes all store information in small magnetic tracks that can be damaged or intentionally modified. With second harmonic magneto-resistive microscopy (SH-MRM) technology, however, data in altered or damaged storage media can be retrieved.
This technology will be especially useful in forensic analysis, where small segments of tape from flight data recorders are sometimes all investigators have to study.
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