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2000
Code 128 was published as ISO/IEC 15417. MaxiCode was published as ISO/IEC 16023. EAN/UPC was published as ISO/IEC 15420. Data Matrix was published as ISO/IEC 16022.

2000
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ATA (Airline Transport Association) releases Spec 2000, a set of e-business specifications, products and services.

2000
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Frontline Solutions Held in Chicago

2001
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PDF 417 was published as ISO/IEC 15438.

2001
AIM Hosts First RFID Summit in US and Europe

2001
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Frontline Solutions Europe Held in Amsterdam

2002
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AIDC Industry Archive at Stony Brook University Library established by AIDC 100.

2003
DoD issues memorandum “Policy for Item Unique Identification (UID) of Tangible items” that makes mandatory the marking and tracking of over 300 million items with Data Matrix code.  Learn more by watching the video above!

2003
Wal-Mart announced their plan to implement RFID tracking in their stores and distribution centers.

2003
AIM Releases RFID and Privacy Primer - RFID FAQs, not Fiction

2003
AIM North America Established

2004
Name changed from Automatic Identification Manufacturers to Automatic Identification & Mobility

2004
RFID Experts Group (REG) Formed

2004
AIM Holds AIDC Boot Camp

2004
FDA issues pharmaceutical bar code mandate
In 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated that pharmaceutical companies bar code their medicines down to the unit of dose so that they can be scanned in hospitals and endorsed Reduced Space Symbology as a means to reduce medication errors.  Learn more by watching the video above.

2004
EPCglobal released a standard RFID air interface protocol in the ultra high frequency (UHF) range. The standard’s short name was Gen 2 (Generation Two), and it was rapidly accepted worldwide.

2004
ISO/IEC 15415 Bar Code Print Quality Test Specifications – 2D Symbols was published.

2004
AIM EMEA hosted the AIM Knowledge & Networking Forum in Brussels

2004
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AIM RFID Mark was Developed

2004
AIM North America Releases the “RFID Knowledge Base” 

2005
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Airlines use IATA standard 2D bar code on boarding passes.

2005
DoD issues mandate for all suppliers to utilize passive RFID tags - the DoD RFID Policy

2005
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Walmart Issues RFID mandate for their suppliers

2005
AIM Addresses RFID Privacy to US Congress and European Union

2005
AIM Global Publishes RFID Position Statement on Consumer Privacy and Security

2005
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The AIM RFID Emblem was revised and published

2005
AIM China Chartered

2006
First Senate RFID Caucus held in Washington DC

2006
AIM Publishes Position Statement on Item-Level Use of RFID

2006
AIM EMEA hosted first Leadership Council

2006
European RFID Experts Group is formed

2007
Unique Device Identification (UDI) Regulation signed into law by FDA for tracking of medical devices - Learn more by watching the video above!

2007
Ted Williams Award is established

2007
Bert Moore Excellence in Journalism Award is established

2008
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2D bar codes sent to mobile phones to enable electronic boarding passes.

2008
AIM Global Announces Availability of Quality Guidelines for Tire RFID

2008
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Andy Longacre’s Aztec Code was published as ISO/IEC 24778. The most prominent application for Aztec Code has been on airline boarding passes.

2008
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AIM Global Announces Availability of New High Data Capacity Bar Code Specification - Datastrip 2D

2008
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AIM Global Announces Availability of New Chinese Bar Code - Grid Matrix

2009
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DotCode, created by Dr. Andy Longacre, was published by AIM as ISS-DotCode

2009
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Coca-Cola unveiled their "Freestyle Soda Machines" that give users 165 different drink combinations with the use of Impinj Monza RFID chips.

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