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For those of you in Paris Thursday next week (October 20), there is a whole day conference on the history of the chip card held at the Bilbliothèque Nationale d

• aaplok 4y ago
  Interesting. The page mentions Michel Ugon (who died in December 2021) as the "true inventor of the smart card". Where Moreno patented the memory card, Ugon invented the microprocessor card and then the SPOM, Self-Programmable One chip Memory). Chips on modern smart cards are essentially the same as the one Ugon created. There was a lot of animosity between him and Moreno, and there were lengthy trials to invalidate Moreno's claim to the paternity of the smart card idea (allegedly stolen from Bull, Ugon's employer). Regardless of this controversy, it's sad that Michel Ugon didn't get the same recognition as Moreno, since he was the one who miniaturised the microprocessor and memory into one chip. Basically putting a computer in people's pockets decades before the iPhone. Moreno certainly worked hard to make it look as the invention of a lone (self-made) inventor, but the smart card was anything but that. [0] https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ugon https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ugon