For those of you in Paris Thursday next week (October 20), there is a whole day conference on the history of the chip card held at the Bilbliothèque Nationale de France by an association of crypto experts:
There was a lot of animosity between him and Moreno, and there were lengthy trials to invalidate Moreno's claim to the paternity of the smart card idea (allegedly stolen from Bull, Ugon's employer). Regardless of this controversy, it's sad that Michel Ugon didn't get the same recognition as Moreno, since he was the one who miniaturised the microprocessor and memory into one chip. Basically putting a computer in people's pockets decades before the iPhone. Moreno certainly worked hard to make it look as the invention of a lone (self-made) inventor, but the smart card was anything but that.