American engineer and author(1927–2018)
Jerome Svigals (June 8, 1927 – November 11, 2018) was an American engineer and author instrumental in the development of magnetic stripes on credit cards and in the adoption of smart card technology.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Svigals was a member of the SPREAD task force that proposed what became the IBM System 360.[8]
References
- ^ United States Obituary Notice, San Jose, Jerome Svigals
- ^ IBM History: Magnetic Stripe Technology
- ^ Computer History Museum: Oral History X4067.2007: Jerome Svigals
- ^ J. Svigals, "The Long Life and imminent Death of the Mag-Stripe Card", IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
- ^ IEEE Spectrum, Back story, page 4, June 2012
- ^ Google books: Jerome Svigals
- ^ Computer History Museum: Lecture: J. Svigals, "The history of magnetic striped media technology", 2011/06/29
- ^ History of Information: "Origins of the IBM System/360", 1961/12/28
