ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION    

Title
AIDC 100 Archive - Andrew Longacre Collection

Collection Number
SC 468 

OCLC Number
In-process

Creator 
Andrew Longacre

Provenance 
Donated in September 2012 by Andrew Longacre.

Extent, Scope, and Content Note 
The Andrew Longacre Collection consists of eight linear inches of reports, files, correspondence, and notes that document bar code history, including Code 49, two dimensional symbologies, performance tests, PDF417, conference proceedings, and specifications. 

Arrangement and Processing Note
The collection was processed in June 2016 by Lynn Toscano and Kristen J. Nyitray. Original order was maintained.  Finding aid edited and revised by Kristen J. Nyitray, May 2019.

Language
English

Restrictions on Access
The collection is open to researchers without restriction.

Rights and Permissions 
Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission where needed prior to publication.  

Citation 
[Item], [Box], Andrew Longacre Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries.

Historical Note
With an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and graduate degrees from the University of Rochester, followed by several years of college teaching, Dr. Andrew Longacre finally settled into his ultimate career in 1980 as a technical contributor at Welch Allyn (exactly at the juncture when they acquired the Codabar product line from Monarch Marking). As a charter member of AIM’s Technical Symbology Committee in 1982, Dr. Longacre helped to grow and standardize the many barcode symbologies now common in the industry, contributing to the early standards for 1D symbol verification, creating the first self-contained PDF-417 reader, and helping to design Channel Code (which begat RSS), Aztec Code, and most recently DotCode. He retired from Honeywell in 2008 and is now happily settled with his wife Ginny in southwestern Vermont.

Subjects
Automatic identification and data capture
Bar coding.
Bar coding -- Equipment and supplies.
System identification.  
Automatic data collection systems.

INVENTORY

Box 1

Two-dimensional symbologies, 1992: includes T. Pavlidis, J. Swartz, Y.P. Wang. Information encoding with two-dimensional bar codes, in Computer (June 1992), 18-28.

Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC) and Automatic Identification Manufacturers (AIM) tests, 1990: includes reports, correspondence, notes, photographs

Automatic Identification Manufacturers (AIM) barcode system performance test, 1987: includes reports

Automatic Identification Manufacturers (AIM) barcode performance tests at State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1985-1986: includes reports, correspondence, inventories

Automatic Identification Manufacturers (AIM) barcode performance tests at State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1987: includes correspondence, reports, test results

RSS and composite test symbols, 1999-2000: includes memos, notes, test results

Scan-Tech ‘89: includes posters, map, badge, article from conference during which there was an earthquake

Early barcode specifications, 1982-1991: includes reports

Scanner literature: includes brochures

PDF417 two-dimensional barcode tests, 1993: includes reports on test results

AutoID ’99 Proceedings: Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, 28-29 October 1999, Summit, New Jersey...Sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and by AIM.

Box 2

Weil, B.S. Automatic Ammunition Identification Technology Test Report for the Datamatrix and Code 49 Symbologies. Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 1993.

File on Code 49: includes published material, sheets of code, floppy disk

Code 49 (Revision C), Symbology Description and Explanation.

barcode test symbols used to calibrate one-dimensional verification and related documents, 1988