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>> reporter: when the fbi release the these vote yoez during the search for the boston suspects, there is hope that computers might help as they do on shows like "csi," comparing facial features with existing data and coming up with a name. >> hello, harry. >> reporter: but even though pictures of both brothers were in public data bases, the computers that searched that data missed them and came up empty. the government has been working on facial identification software since the 1960s and companies like facebook and apple use similar technology to tag people in photos. but security analysts w...

Say who are these two men? so why didn't the technology work? tom foreman investigates "outfront." >> reporter: when the fbi release the these vote yoez during the search for the boston suspects, there is hope that computers might help as they do on shows like "csi," comparing facial features with existing data and coming up with a name. >> hello, harry. >> reporter: but even though pictures of both brothers were in public data bases, the computers that searched that data missed them and came up empty. the government has been working on facial identification software since the 1960s and compan...

>> and hopefully save a life. that's our aim. that's our goal. that's everything we do here. >> for now the fbi is installing the latest version of facial identification software to work with security cameras coast to coast as part of a billion dollar program called next generation identification. still, in boston it wasn't technology but human investigators who triumphed. for "outfront," tom foreman, washington. >> amazing when you sought angles of tom's face, can you see how it seems so simple with any angle but it really isn't. still "outfront," details about what the first colonists ate wh...