Jerome Svigals

Short description: American engineer and author(1927–2018)

Jerome Svigals

Born| (1927-06-08)June 8, 1927

Bronx, New York

Died| November 11, 2018(2018-11-11) (aged 91)

San Jose, California

Occupation| engineer
Employer| US Army, RCA, IBM
Spouse(s)| Lias (Lois) Joan Kahn (1930-75) Pauline Elizardo (m. 1977/03/06)

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 technology.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Svigals was a member of the SPREAD task force that proposed what became the IBM System 360.[8]

## References

1. ↑ United States Obituary Notice, San Jose, Jerome Svigals
2. ↑ IBM History: Magnetic Stripe Technology
3. ↑ Computer History Museum: Oral History X4067.2007: Jerome Svigals
4. ↑ J. Svigals, "The Long Life and imminent Death of the Mag-Stripe Card", IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
5. ↑ IEEE Spectrum, Back story, page 4, June 2012
6. ↑ Google books: Jerome Svigals
7. ↑ Computer History Museum: Lecture: J. Svigals, "The history of magnetic striped media technology", 2011/06/29
8. ↑ History of Information: "Origins of the IBM System/360", 1961/12/28

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