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Misleading article, at least at the beginning -- the UPC is a kind of barcode, and this guy didn't invent the barcode as a whole. Norman Joseph Woodland did inv
by jwestbury 3y ago
Misleading article, at least at the beginning -- the UPC is a kind of barcode, and this guy didn't invent the barcode as a whole. Norman Joseph Woodland did invent the barcode, just not the UPC.
- toss1 3y agoperhaps read the article. Woodland is discussed at length. Yes, ht did invent a circular barcode years before, but it did not work. He later joined the McEnroe IBM team stating he was very impressed with how much better their work was than his, and continued long after McEnroe left. No one is trying to deny him credit, but credit for the work of inventing barcodes that ACTUALLY WORK is evidently due to McEnroe.