Bar Code Pioneer Proved the Technology Was Robust. David J. Collins, who has died at age 86, created a system in the early 1960s to track railcars rumbling down the track . By .

The bar code took off in the grocery and retail business in the 1980s, and at the same time began to transform manufacturing and to appear like a rash on anything that benefited from instant ...

Bar Code Confusion Rumor: A CD with barcode cover art confused store's scanners. David Mikkelson Published Aug. 10, 2005. Claim: Claim: Retailers mistakenly scanned the wrong side of a CD bearing ...

The first bar code was used in 1974 to scan in a pack of gum. Now they're used for everything from flight check-ins to patient records and warehouse inventory. They've even been used to track bees.

The bar code is one of these: everything you buy has one of these black and white striped codes on it. We've all seen how they are used: ...

Baldino’s bar-code bargains pale in comparison with other national cases. In November, a Reno, Nev., man was arrested for stealing more than $200,000 worth of Legos in a bar-code scam.

That old grocery-store standby, the bar code on every mop, magazine, and Mars bar, celebrated its 30th birthday this year. Considering the drastic advances in computing since 1974, it should come ...

Prior to leading the bar code project, McEnroe worked in IBM's research lab in the '60s. He recalls the company working on what he said was actually "the first thing that would be sort of like AI ...