N. Joseph Woodland, P.E.Ventnor W Woodland then selected IBM as the company most likely to pursue the exploitation of automated checkout in supermarkets. From 1971 to 1982, Woodland was responsible for developing IBM's UPC proposal and selling it to the grocery industry. In 1993, he received the National Medal of Technology from President George Bush for his invention and contribution to the commercialization of bar code technology which improved productivity in every industrial sector and gave rise to the bar code industry. In 1993, he received the National Medal of Technology from President George Bush for his invention and contribution to the commercialization of bar code technology which improved productivity in every industrial sector and gave rise to the bar code industry. During World War II, Woodland was recruited for the U.S. Army's Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he served as a technical aide to the Corps of Engineers unit chief for the project in which uranium isotopes were separated through liquid thermal diffusion. His responsibilities included project historian. He contributed material to Atomic Energy for Military Purposes, the official report on the development of the atomic bomb. Woodland earned bachelor’s degree and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Drexel University and Syracuse University respectively. |
