Alan Haberman, barcode advocate, dies at 81

a person whose impact at the world is almost unfathomable died Sunday. Alan L. Haberman, supermarket-executive-turned-barcode-champion, died in Newton Massachusetts from complications of heart and lung disease on the age of 81. While he didn’t invent those ubiquitous black and white stripes — that honor belongs to Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver — Haberman did lead the campaign to make barcodes the universal standard for electronic product encoding. He chaired the committee answerable for the designation of the zebra-like markings, which in 1973 adopted a barcode designed by George J. Laurer of IBM. In his work on the Uniform Code Council (referred to now as GS1 US), he pushed for acceptance of multiple standards, including RFID . His obituary could be read in-full on the source link below.

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