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.IBM History: Magnetic Stripe TechnologyComputer History Museum: Oral History X4067.2007: Jerome SvigalsJ. Svigals, "The Long Life and imminent Death of the Mag-Stripe Card", IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012IEEE Spectrum, Back story, page 4, June 2012Google books: Jerome SvigalsComputer History Museum: Lecture: J. Svigals, "The history of magnetic striped media technology", 2011/06/29
Svigals was a member of the SPREAD task force that proposed what became the IBM System 360.History of Information: "Origins of the IBM System/360", 1961/12/28
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