| Name |
J.E. Bass |
| Born |
29 Aug 1930 |
Waveland, Yell County, Arkansas  |
| Gender |
Male |
| _UID |
26DEDAF8A88E63459B304718B349C402A0A6 |
| Died |
15 Feb 1992 |
Bridgeton, St. Louis County, Missouri |
| Buried |
Rose Lawn Park Cemetery, Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas |
| Notes |
- Find-A-Grave Biography
J.E. was married to Nellie G. Rudy on December 28, 1950. They had three children: James Edwin Bass, Jenelle Arlene Bass and Sondra Marcelle Bass.
J.E. served in the Koren War with the Air Force.
J.E. Bass was an Electrical Engineer by trade graduating with honors and holding a B.S. and M.S. Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas and Graduate Studies in Computer Sciences from both Stanford and SMU.
His work with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) design in later years led to him returning to University of Arkansas to partner and work on the development of the Wide Area Bar Code Reader, for which he holds a Patent.
From the University of Arkansas:
The most widely-implemented automated mail sorting equipment in
the world – the Wide Area Bar Code Reader – was developed by the
University of Arkansas’ College of Engineering. A $50,000 grant from
the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to Professors Dwight F. Mix and J.E.
Bass in 1989 began the research and development effort. By 1999,
more than 15,000 University of Arkansas bar code readers were
located in every major USPS facility, increasing the efficiency of
processing 20 billion pieces of mail a year at a savings of $200
million. This R&D effort has spawned four additional electronic
systems to help the USPS "read the mail".
This marker is located at the campus mall entrance to the Bell
Engineering Center.
J.E. was living in Benton, Arkansas, at the time of his death with his second wife Wanda Faye Fisher. He was on a business trip in Missouri when he passed.
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| Person ID |
I35 |
Bass28 William Bass of Arkansas |
| Last Modified |
2 Jun 2019 |
Bassett Family Association Database
1930 - 1992 (61 years)