I finished high-school in 1957 in Tel-Aviv - Tichon Ironi Alef.
I graduated with a B.Sc. degree in 1961 in Haifa - Technion (in Physics).
I graduated with an M.Sc. degree in 1967 in Haifa - Technion (in Physics).
I started a Ph.D. program in Computer Science in the Technion but never finished it.
Zillion courses in computer-related subjects.
I started working as a systems programmer in the computer center of the Technion in 1966.
I built many packages for the Elliott 503 and the IBM 360/50 computers.
I became the director of the computer center of the Technion in 1970.
I introduced Time Sharing (from computer terminals) to the Technion and to Israel. Before that all computers in Israel were running in the Batch mode, with punched cards)
After two years I left to build a new computation center in Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva.
I designed that computation center and selected a computer with a unique benchmark which included a time-sharing stream and a student jobs streams.
I brought up the idea of acomputer-network to connect all Israeli universities and I created the Forum of University Computer Center Managers, both of which evolved to become the Machba and the ILAN network. I was it's (the forum) coordinator for many years.
I resigned the job of head of computation center in 1975 to become the head of user-services in the same center.
I designed and built many systems including an electronic consultation system, a magnetic tape system, an electronic conferencing system and many more.
I managed to make time-sharing a normal mode of operation (instead of the batch mode), both for reasearch staff members and for students, the first time in Israel.
I designed and built POST, the first e-mail system in Israel, and made it a working service - in 1980.
I became the computer consultant of the department of Mechanical Engineering in BGU in 1986.
I used to take care of problems in Mac, PC and Unix, mainly software but also hardware and communication problems.
Later, for several years, I was doing the same also for the department of Life Sciences in BGU.
I started teaching in 1962, in my army service.
I started teaching computer programming in 1964 and I kept teaching it all the time, teaching Autocode, Algol, Fortran, Basic, Cobol, APL and Pascal (not to mention courses of machine languages in Elliott, VAX and PC). I wrote a curricullum for teaching computer programming to university students, the first in Israel, which was used in the Technion and in other universities as well.
I gave courses in Numerical Analysis in the Technion (to graduate students) and in BGU (to undergraduate students).
I taught Data Processing in BGU.
I taught courses of computer programming in a gifted children program.
I built two TPSA educational programs to teach thinking, i.e. handling of unexpected situations while teaching computer programming, one for 1st year students and the other for gifted children, each one comprising hundreds of examples, run on the computer, with the results in Pascal (initially in Algol and then in Fortran) and in Basic with many problems to be solved on the computer, on a trial and error basis.
I designed and programmed the TPSA game library, comprising 12 computer games, to teach thinking, run on a CDC main frame computer, on CBM personal computers and on Apple II personal computers, but never on PCs. This library was popular at that time in many homes and schools in Israel.
I designed, built and managed the FLUID/Mashov project of Computer-Assisted
Instruction, one of the first
CAI systems in Israel (started in 1976) which included a CAI language (running on the CDC
computer), 2 classrooms of 12 terminals each, used 10 hours a day, 5 subjects, 300
hours of courseware, hundreds od pupils (in grades 5 to 8) and many teachers
writing the courseware. The basic principles of that system were:
The computer should not replace the teacher but rather enhance the communication between teacher
and pupil
The CAI system is a telephone, communicating teacher and pupil, talking in different times
The system was collecting all the pupils' responses and presenting these to the teacher, in a manner
allowing continuous improvement of the courseware
The goal is to use the computer to get to a Buber-like dialog, between the teacher and the pupil.
I created the CAI-SIG which became later the Moach (Computers and Education) organisation and I was its coordinator for four years.
I was active in introducing computers to the educational system in Israel, taught in the first courses to teachers, supervised the first computer-literacy project in the Negev and participated in many projects, giving lectures and being part of the guiding teams.
After teaching a course in a partially remote teaching mode, I started working on a project called CART (Computer-Aided Remote Teaching) of using e-mail and WWW as a teaching environment which enhances teacher-student communication, based on my NWD (NetWorking Dialog) model.
I wrote the Socrates and the Internet article in Hebrew (available on the Net) which is being used as part of the curricullum in many Computers & Education courses.
After going on pension, my main occupation is in the BGU-RET,, Computers @ Retirees e-mail discussion group.
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