Joel Moses
Joel Moses (born November 25, 1941 in Petach Tikvah, Israel) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and university professor.
Life
Moses moved to the United States from Israel in 1954 and went to high school in Brooklyn. He studied mathematics at Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and a master's degree in 1963. Moses received his doctorate in 1967 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Marvin Minsky . In his dissertation, Symbolic Integration , he laid the foundations for the Macsyma (Project Mac's Symbolic Manipulator) computer algebra system, which was developed under his direction at MIT from 1969 and was a model for later commercial programs such as Mathematica and Maple . From 1967 he was an assistant professor of computer science at MIT, where he became a professor in 1977 and was an associate director of the Laboratory of Computer Science from 1974 to 1978. From 1978 he was deputy director and from 1981 to 1989 he was director of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. From 1991 to 1995 he was Dean of Engineering and from 1995 to 1998 he was Provost at MIT. In 1999 he was appointed Institute Professor at MIT (the highest grade of professor at MIT). From 2006 to 2007 he was Acting Director of the Engineering Systems Division at MIT and from 2007 to 2010 Acting Director of the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the IEEE , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Engineering .
Web links
- Homepage at MIT ( en ) Massachusetts Institute of Technology . October 20, 2017. Archived from the original on October 5, 2018. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ He published the memories of the development of Macsyma in: Moses Macsyma: a personal history , Journal of Symbolic Computation, Volume 47, 2012, pp. 123-130
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Moses, Joel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli-American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petach Tikvah, Israel |