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Joel Moses

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Joel Moses · Technology & Engineering

What

Co-developed the Macsyma computer-algebra system.

When

1941, Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine — 2022, United States

Where

Israel · United States

Biography

Joel Moses is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-developed the Macsyma computer-algebra system.

How & why

Joel Moses was a computer scientist who co-developed Macsyma, one of the first comprehensive computer-algebra systems, whose symbolic mathematics engine influenced later tools like Mathematica and Maple. A longtime MIT professor, he also served as the institute's provost. He was Jewish, born in Mandatory Palestine and raised partly in the United States.

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Co-developed the Macsyma computer-algebra system.

1941

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science