pioneer

In the 1960s it pioneered “machine-readable cataloging,” or MARC, launching the digitization of library catalogs and a nationwide automated library network.

Marvin Glass, whose firm’s origins date to the early 1940s, pioneered the idea of forming independent design studios to invent toys that could be licensed to toy manufacturers.

A pioneering surgeon who carried out the first successful heart transplant in the UK has died aged 93.

District Judge Amit Mehta had declared Google a “monopolist,” leaving investors to wonder if the internet search pioneer would be broken up.

He also brought the efficiency and standardization of factory production to sales, helping to pioneer and popularize many practices that are still common.