Twenty-five years behind bars : the proceedings of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the U.P.C. at the Smithsonian Institution, September 30, 1999 / Alan L. Haberman, general editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haberman, Alan L.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Wertheim publications in industrial relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Product coding--Congresses.

Product coding.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 159 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

25 years behind bars

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Wertheim Publications Committee : distributed by Harvard University Press, 2001.

Summary:

The bar code is now at the core of commerce, transportation, warehousing, manufacturing, and retailing, and its influence has spread to virtually every industry in the industrialized world. When this voluntary product code was first introduced in 1974, it led to the worldwide revolution in supply chain efficiency.

To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of this now universally embraced technology, the Smithsonian Institution sponsored a symposium. Gathered together in this volume, are the thoughts of eight speakers--with hands-on experience--concerning the development, diffusion, adoption, and applications of a truly groundbreaking technology. The volume concludes with papers from a panel discussion among those involved in creating the Universal Product Code, the foundation of the bar code.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0674006577

OCLC:

48418874