Mr. Joseph Wegstein was born in Washburn, Illinois on April 7, 1922 . Mr. Wegstein received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1944 and an M.S. in Engineering Physics in 1948. Mr. Wegstein was the Acting Chief of the Office for Information Processing Standards. He was responsible for organizing the first activities assigned to NBS under the Brooks Bill leading to standards in automatic data processing and development of programming languages COBOL and ALGOL, the early use of electronic computers in reactor design. Mr. Wegstein also has assisted the FBI in automating its substantial fingerprint identification system by developing techniques that enabled computer comparison of data from two different fingerprints from the same finger.
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