Bar Code Inventor Dies

I worked with identification technology technologies for years.  Bar codes were a simple solution to a simple problem with wide ranging, complex applications ... They are still of much value ...

A colleague - correspondent writes:  I was very sad to read that inventor Norman Joseph Woodland died aged 91 on Sunday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/business/n-joseph-woodland-inventor-of-the-bar-code-dies-at-91.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20718362
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323297104578177502124093578.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Joseph_Woodland

His co-inventor Bernard Silver died young at the age of 38 in 1963 in an automobile accident:

http://www.adams1.com/history.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Silver
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/454.html