Jerome Svigals

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]}

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

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