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A barcode reader or barcode scanner is an optical scanner that can read printed barcodes and send the data they contain to computer. [1] Like a flatbed scanner, it consists of a light source, a lens, and a light sensor for translating optical impulses into electrical signals.
Peter Shapiro, who grew up in New York City, is the grandson of Ezra Shapiro, a former world chairman of the Keren Hayesod (the world's largest fundraising organizations for Israel), and the great-grandnephew of Joel Elias Spingarn, one of the first Jewish leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Shapiro was born in the Bronx [2] [3] on May 18, 1931, to Sylvia (née Lebost) and Ira Shapiro. [4] [5] [6] His father worked as a furrier and his mother was a social activist. [4] He first met his future business partner, Howard West, in the third grade. [7] When Shapiro was 12, Carl Reiner married Shapiro's aunt, Estelle Lebost, and became ...
Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa (בחיי בן אשר אבן חלואה , 1255–1340) was a rabbi and scholar of Judaism, best known as a commentator on the Hebrew Bible. He is one of two scholars now referred to as Rabbeinu Behaye , the other being philosopher Bahya ibn Paquda .
Ben Alexander as a child actor. A native of Goldfield, Nevada, [4] Alexander was the son of Nicholas Benton Alexander Jr. and Elizabeth Hinkley. [5] [6]After a number of silent films, he retired from screen work, but came back for the World War I classic, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), in which Alexander received good notices as an adult actor as "Kemmerich", the tragic amputation ...
Milly Shapiro is an American actress and singer. She starred in the 2018 horror film Hereditary . In 2021, Shapiro and Spencer Arjang co-created the band AFTERxCLASS.
Shapiro was also an early internet entrepreneur, [11] and a proponent of global digital democracy. [18] [22] Shapiro is the founder of the Ba Rock Band [23] and a founder of the Israeli political party "Democratit". [24] He is a winner of two ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grants. [25] [26]
Beth Alison Shapiro (born January 14, 1976 [5]) is an American evolutionary molecular biologist, associate director for conservation genomics at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. [6] [7] In March 2024, Shapiro became chief scientific officer of Colossal Biosciences. [7]