Manufacturers of complex systems need to mark every part with an ID number, but etched or printed bar codes may not work because they are often covered by paint or special finishes. To address that ...

Congress is considering legislation now on a fast track to require municipal issuers to file their disclosure statement with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board in "machine readable" format.

QR codes are a handy way to embed information, but they aren’t exactly pretty. New work from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have a new way to produce high ...