A patron at the ribbon cutting of the new Blount County Public Library robotic book drop said it best. "It's like a Dollywood ...

That was one of his first jobs at IBM, involving image scanners. As he explains in his book about the invention of the UPC barcode, this helped to prepare him for working on completely new ...

The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer—on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going ...

It wasn’t until I began doing archival research for my book about the cultural history of the barcode that I realized how close we came to living in a world where I wasn’t surrounded by those ...