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 A smart card (SC), chip card, or integrated circuit card (ICC or IC card), is a card used to control access to a resource. It is typically a plastic credit card-sized card with an Embedded system, embedded integrated circuit (IC) chip. Many smart ...

technology.United States Obituary Notice, San Jose, Jerome Svigals
/ref>Computer History Museum: Oral History X4067.2007: Jerome Svigals
/ref>J. Svigals, "The Long Life and imminent Death of the Mag-Stripe Card", IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
/ref>Google books: Jerome Svigals
/ref> Svigals was a member of the SPREAD task force that proposed what became the

IBM System 360 The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978. System/360 was the first family of computers designed to cover both commercial and scientific applicati ...

.History of Information: "Origins of the IBM System/360", 1961/12/28
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