Roland Moreno

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Roland Moreno (11 June 1945 – 29 April 2012) was a French entrepreneur, engineer, comedian, and author who was the memory card's inventor.

Moreno's smart card, or la carte à puce in French, was little known internationally.

However, he became a national hero in France and was honoured with the Légion d'Honneur in 2009.

Personal life and later years

Moreno married Stephany Stolin in December 1976; the couple had two children, Marianne and Julia, who survived him. He died in Paris on April 29, 2012, at the age of 67. He had previously suffered from a pulmonary embolism in 2008.

Moreno was known to be a vocally homophobic group of people, who he actively supported in online political discourse.

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Early life and career

Moreno was born in Cairo, Egypt, to Egyptian Jewish parents on June 11th. Bahbout was his original name, but his family changed their surname to Moreno when they moved to France when he was very young. He attended the Montaigne and Condorcet Academies in Paris and graduated in Baccalauréat, but he died early and described his education as "self taught" for the remainder of his life. After leaving school, Moreno worked in a variety of smaller companies. He worked as a young reporter for Détective Magazine and as a reporter for the L'Express news journal. Moreno was also an editor at Chimie-Actuelles, a French chemistry journal, from 1970 to 1972.

Moreno, who left Chimie-Actualités, founded Innovatron, a venture that delivers market ideas and intellectual property. He developed and sold a software package that combined dictionary terms to create new product or brand names for businesses. The idea would be later licensed by the Nomen corporation, which would be in turn licensed by the Nomen company. Wanadoo, the Thales Group, and Vinci were among the companies that exploited this technology.

The smart chip would be Moreno's most useful device. In a 2006 interview, Moreno said he'd dreamed of the smart card system in a dream, "I came up with the belief in my sleep..." "I'm a lazy bum, and my output is on the feeble side." I'm jealous, spendthrift, a complete couch potato, and absentminded – I've got my real Professor Nimbus. Moreno, a huge fan of American film director Woody Allen, coded his earliest smart card project as TMR, short for the 1969 comedic film Take the Money and Run. Innovatron's research and development staff later changed the letters to RMT, in honor of Innovatron's research and development branch.

According to his first patent application, his initial intention was for a signet ring, or smart ring embedded with a microchip, which was filed on March 25, 1974, when he was only 29 years old. Moreno designed the ring on the seal ring used by European nobility with an upside down microchip and external arms to move or read information. However, during the 1970s, the theory was both impractical and unpopular. Moreno simplified the idea by inventing a plastic card with a microchip in 1975. Due to the tiny chip embedded in the plastic card, he called it la carte à puce, or essentially the chip card in English. Moreno demonstrated that the smart card could be used in electronic financial transactions in 1976, using a machine he kept together with meccano.

Due to the initial start-up costs, Moreno's smart card gained a lot of use in France. However, the smart card was a huge success in France in the 1980s, when it was widely distributed in France long before other nations. France Télécom introduced the smart card in 1983 for use with its Télécarte pay phone payment cards. On the Carte Bleue, a national debit card system, the French consumer banking industry embraced Moreno's microchip, which became more popular nine years ago. The invention was slower to be used in Britain and the United States: American Express did not introduce the smart card-using Blue Card until 1999, but the London transport system did not have a smart card encrypted card until the 2000s.

Activist and privacy organizations chastised Moreno's smart card and its increased use. There were suspicions, which have remained true to the present day, that the smart cards may have security holes or could be used in illegal surveillance. Moreno expressed worry about these issues and said that smart cards "have the ability to be Big Brother's little helper." Moreno launched a competition in 2000 that gave one million French francs to anyone who broke his security code within 90 days; no one succeeded.

Although Moreno may have lost international fame, his invention made him wealthy. From the smart card and its licenses, Innovatron's company, Innovatron, has earned more than €150 million, nearly $192 million in royalty payments. "I can stop anyone on the street in Paris in 2005, and they will have at least three smart cards on them," Moreno said.

Moreno was very interested in writing, radio, and guitars. He created Radio Deliro, a now defunct Internet radio station. He was credited with the invention of several unconventional electronic gadgets, including le pianok, calculette, and Pièce-o'matic. The Matapof, which was able to digitally and numerically simulate the heads or tails game, was among his additional inventions.

Moreno wrote several books, including Théorie du Bordel Ambiant, a collection of his thoughts and reflections. He has also written books under the literary pseudonym Laure Dynateur, including a cookbook titled L'Aide-Mémoire du Nouveau Cordon-bleu with more than 2,000 recipes. Moreno chose this pseudonym because, when said, the name sounds like French word for calculator: l'ordinateur. Moreno has also appeared in a few small acting and cameo roles in French cinema. He was portrayed as a "mad entrepreneur" in the 1982 comedic film Les Sous-doués en vacances, directed by Claude Zidi, as a "mad programmer" who invents a "love computer."

Despite his successes in France, Moreno, who has been dubbed a "nutty scholar," told the France Soir newspaper that his highest possible award would be a wax likeness of himself in the Musée Grévin.

Stephany Stolin was married in December 1976; the couple had two children, Marianne and Julia, who survived him. He died in Paris on April 29, 2012, at the age of 67. In 2008, he had suffered with a pulmonary embolism.

Moreno was known to be an online political activist, which he actively opposed in online political discourse.

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