From grocery stores to human bodies: Bar code technology turns 40
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
George Laurer had no idea his design would reach well beyond retail outlets when he created the black line and number sets known as the modern bar code. Since the then IBM engineer's development of the UPC some four decades ago, a new generation of cataloguing devices has infiltrated many industries, and even human bodies.