Roland Moreno
Roland Moreno (* as Roland Bahbout June 11, 1945 Cairo ; † April 29, 2012 in Paris ) was an Egyptian-French inventor. He is considered to be one of the inventors of the chip card .
Moreno came to France with his Egyptian-Jewish family as a child, where the family changed the name to Moreno . He attended prestigious schools in Paris (Lycée Montaigne and Lycée Condorcet), but left school early and described himself as an autodidact. As a high school dropout he worked as a delivery boy, as a reporter for a detective magazine, he worked for the magazine L'Express and was an editor for the chemical magazine Chimie-Actualités . On March 25, 1974, he was granted the first detailed patent for a chip card in France, which he marketed with his company Innovatron. In France, the chip card had a breakthrough earlier than in other countries, after it was introduced in 1983 by the telephone company France Télécom for making calls.
Originally, he wanted to introduce them as a kind of signet ring that users could use to authenticate themselves. He called the card carte à puce (flea card, because of the size of the chip) and he named his first project TMR (after the 1969 film Take the money and run ), which he converted to RMT, after a Woody Allen film for the research department of his company Innovatron. By 2012 he earned over 120 million euros with his invention. At the time of his death, however, he was little known internationally; The inventors of the chip card are generally considered to be the Germans Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrup with a patent from 1969.
Later he was also active as an inventor, especially in the field of computer music, especially for the now defunct online music station Radio Deliro . He himself named Bach, Mozart and Boris Vian as his favorite musicians.
In France, because of his looks and demeanor - he had a reputation for being a bit disorganized - people had the image of the mad inventor ; so it served as a template for the inventor of a love computer in the French film Les Sous-Doués en Vacances from 1982.
He published several books, including a cookbook under the pseudonym Laure Dynateur (which is pronounced like l'ordinateur , a word for computer in French).
In 2008 he suffered an embolism .
In 2009 he became an officer of the Legion of Honor . In 1996 he and Dethloff received the Eduard Rhein Foundation's technology prize for the invention of the chip card.
Web links
- Phil Davison, Roland Moreno: Inventor who missed out on global recognition for his computer chip smart card , The Independent, May 4, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moreno, Roland |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bahbout, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-Egyptian inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cairo |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 2012 |
| Place of death | Paris |