The problem, says Howard Schilit, an accounting expert at Financial Shenanigans Detection Group in Key Biscayne, Fla.

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With most of its leaders probably now lurking in the wilder parts of South Asia, deprived of their radios and telephones by fear of detection, the group's organisational function has shrivelled.

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Designed to help capture better portraits and group shots of family and friends, Face Detection technology detects up to nine faces and automatically adjusts focus and exposure to ensure better composition and image quality.

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Last month, Chad Mirkin 's Northwestern spinoff Nanosphere entered into a development contract with the U.S. Government Technical Support Working Group to use Nanosphere's proprietary biomolecular detection system (using gold nanoparticles) for detection of biological warfare agents like anthrax.

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The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which did not reveal, at the time, that some funding came from a group called the Foundation for Lung Cancer, Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment.

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Rudge, along with a group of other students, set to work on seeing if automatic detection would be possible, using complex mathematic formulas.

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