aka Isaac Lewendel, Jacques Lewendel, Haim Levendel, Ytzhak Levendel, etc.
Born June 28, 1936 in Avignon – France
1940-1944: Childhood under Vichy and German occupation in Avignon and area
June 6, 1944: My mother, Sarah Lewendel, is arrested and deported to Auschwitz
1953: High School diploma – Math and Science option, Avignon
1953-1955: Mathématiques supérieures et spéciales
1955-1957: Ecole des Mines, France
1957: Joins kibbutz Beit-Kama, Israel
1958-1960: Israeli military service in parachute corps
1960-1965: Teacher and manager of Alyat Hano’ar Group, Jewish Agency
1965-1967: Coordinate emigration of young Jewish adults out of Morocco
June 1967: Six day war, Israel
1971: BS EE, Technion, Israel
1973: Yom Kippur war, Israel
1971-1974: Engineer Golem B computer design, Weitzmann Institute, Israel
1973: MS CS, Weitzmann Institute, Israel
1970-1974: Instructor Technion
1974-1976: Consultant, Brewer and Associates, Los Angeles
1976: PHD CE-CS, USC
1976-1997: AT&T, Lucent Bell Labs, Director
1977-1987: Ass. Prof Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
1998-2003: Motorola, Software development and System Reliability, Director
2003-date: Consulting Software development and Mobile Ad hoc Networks
http://www.software-blackholes.com
Currently: Three projects in progress, a new book about WWII, a “Letter to my grandchildren” and a book about lower-cost software development
Publications & Activities
50+ technical articles and contributions to collective professional books (Hardware and software, automation of system design, wire line and wireless telephony, development and theory, reliability and availability of networks and their components)
6 patents
1992-1996: Liaison of AT&T with Illinois Institute of Technology
1992-1997: Member of IIT industrial advisory board
1996: Un Hiver en Provence, Editions de l’Aube, France
1999-2000: Not the Germans Alone, Northwestern University Press, Evanston
2012: Hunting down the Jews, Enigma Books, NY
2013: Vichy, les Nazis et les Voyous, Le Nouveau Monde, Paris
Loves
Family (wife, 3 grownups + partners, 4 grandchildren), close friends, real chocolate, millefeuilles, baba au rhum and subtly flavored cooking, reading, dialog, writing, comedy, cartooning, various music genres
Hates
Hatreds and hot peppers
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