Joel Moses

Joel Moses ( born November 25, 1941 in Petach Tikvah, Israel) is an Israeli- American computer scientist and university teacher.

Life

Moses went in 1954 from Israel to the U.S. 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 in 1967 his doctorate under Marvin Minsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In his dissertation Symbolic integration he laid the foundations for the Macsyma ( Project Mac's Symbolic Manipulator ) computer algebra system that was developed under his leadership in 1969 at MIT and a role model fürspätere commercial programs such as Mathematica and Maple was. From 1967 he was assistant professor of computer science at MIT, where he became professor in 1977 and from 1974 to 1978 Associate Director of the Laboratory of Computer Science was. From 1978 he was deputy head and 1981 to 1989 he was Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and computer science ( EECS ) at MIT. 1991 to 1995 he was Dean of Engineering ( Dean of Engineering ) and 1995 to 1998 he was Provost at MIT. He was appointed Institute Professor at MIT ( the highest rank of professor at MIT ) in 1999. 2006-2007 he was Acting Director of the Engineering Systems Division of MIT and 2007-2010 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.