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Saul Amarel

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Saul Amarel · Technology & Engineering

What

Computer & information scientist

When

1928, Salonika (Thessaloniki), Greece — 2002, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Where

Greece · United States

Biography

Saul Amarel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist

How & why

Saul Amarel was a Greek-born American computer scientist, a pioneer of artificial intelligence who founded the Rutgers University computer science department in 1969 and won the ACM Allen Newell Award for his work on problem representation and planning. Born into a Greek-Jewish family in Salonika, he survived the Nazi occupation, led his family to Mandatory Palestine, and studied at the Technion. He was Jewish.

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Computer & information scientist

Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS