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	Middle East's First Computer Named History Milestone
		And because WEIZAC was modeled after a computer built in the United States, it was also honored as an example of the importance of transferring information between countries.
		WEIZAC was used to study global tidal changes, the structure of atoms using atomic spectroscopy, and crystallography, or the arrangement of atoms in solids.
		Today, WEIZAC is on display in the Jacob Ziskind Building on the institute’s campus, serving as a reminder of the Middle East’s first steps in high-powered computer technology.
	www.theinstitute.ieee.org /portal/site/tionline/menuitem.130a3558587d56e8fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=institute_level1_article&TheCat=1008&article=tionline/legacy/inst2006/dec06/history.xml& (515 words)

	WEIZAC
		The WEIZAC or Weizmann Automatic Computer, an early computer built by the Weizmann Institute in Israel, was based on the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) architecture developed by John von Neumann.
		As with all computers of its era, it was a one of a kind machine that could not exchange programs with other computers (even other IAS machines).
		The WEIZAC was used to study problems like worldwide chages in tide, and it took hundreds of hours to to any problem.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/we/WEIZAC.html (202 words)

	WEIZAC - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The WEIZAC or Weizmann Automatic Computer, an early computer built by the Weizmann Institute in Israel, was based on the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) architecture developed by John von Neumann.
		As with all computers of its era, it was a one of a kind machine that could not exchange programs with other computers (even other IAS machines).
		The WEIZAC was used to study problems like worldwide chages in tide, and it took hundreds of hours to to any problem.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /we/WEIZAC.html (202 words)

	English : WHAT WE ARE DOING ABOUT > WHAT WE ARE DOING ABOUT > test
		WEIZAC was one of the world's first electronic computers, and the first in Israel.
		WEIZAC was used for mathematical research, such as solving problems related to the computation of ocean tides; this entailed complex calculations which could not reasonably be performed manually.
		In other projects, WEIZAC was used to carry out calculations to examine various theoretical models of the internal structure of the Earth, taking into account its different strata.
	wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il /site/EN/weizman.asp?pi=420&doc_id=755 (1593 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Perhaps most important, WEIZAC spawned a cadre of engineers and technicians who, with their successors, went on to staff the country’s high-tech industry and top academic institutions.
		The contributions of the two WEIZAC pioneers have been honoured and perpetuated through the Estrin Family Chair in Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute, on whose board of governors Estrin served for more than two decades.
		Only Margo, who was part of the WEIZAC period as an infant, broke the family tradition by becoming a doctor of internal medicine, practising in the San Francisco area.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=4960&s=1 (982 words)

	IEEE - IEEE History Center: WEIZAC Computer, 1955
		The WEIZAC was based on drawings from the IAS computer at Princeton University and built with much ingenuity.
		Some design changes which led to the remarkable record of reliability achieved by WEIZAC were: acquisition of one of the earliest commercial ferrite core memories, replacement of the original IAS vacuum tubes by more reliable elements and use of very conservative redesign methods.
		The Weizmann automatic computer (WEIZAC) was enthusiastically begun by the team of Estrin, wife Thelma as electrical engineer and technician Micha Kedem.
	ieee.org /web/aboutus/history_center/weizac.html (837 words)

	WEIZAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As with all computers of its it was a one of a kind that could not exchange programs with other (even other IAS machines).
		The WEIZAC was used to study problems worldwide changes in tide and it took hundreds of hours compute any problem.
		The computer solved a problem to how earthquakes worked and to test a theory the internal structure of the earth.
	www.freeglossary.com /WEIZAC (172 words)

	EGAD: WEIZAC
		WEIZAC gathering dust in the lobby of the Applied Math building at the Weizmann Institute.
		A couple of weeks ago, I ran across this Jerusalem Post article on WEIZAC, the first computer in the Middle East.
		That was a major event for the people who built the computer and got it to do something useful.
	blog.lib.umn.edu /mill1974/EGAD/011023.html (770 words)

	WEIZAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The WEIZAC or Weizmann Automatic Computer, an early computer built in 1954 by the Weizmann Institute in Israel, was based on the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) architecture developed by John von Neumann.
		Later, the institute built more advanced computers, like the GOLEM I in 1964 and the GOLEM II in 1972.
		The WEIZAC was used to study problems like worldwide changes in tide, and it took hundreds of hours to compute any problem.
	www.kiwipedia.com /weizmann-automatic-computer.html (227 words)

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		As the computer was nearing completion, Estrin and his wife returned to the U.S. Shortly after their departure, WEIZAC performed its first calculation, in October 1955.
		WEIZAC was being put out to pasture as a new generation of computer, the GOLEM, was about to be launched.
		Before the start of the WEIZAC project there were no digital electronic computers in Israel.
	www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il /math/weizac/weizac.html (1043 words)

	Women Who Inspire Us, Thelma Estrin
		She also published papers on how to map the brain with the help of computers, and in 1975--long before the Internet became popular and easy to use--she designed a computer network between UCLA and UC Davis.
		Estrin also helped to design Israel's first computer, the WEIZAC, in 1954.
		She was the director of the Data Processing Laboratory at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA.
	www.girlgeeks.org /innergeek/inspiringwomen/testrin.shtml (245 words)

	UCLA Today: 001010 professor
		Early in his career, Gerald Estrin directed the development of Israel's first computer, the WEIZAC.
		He joined the UCLA faculty in the mid-1950s and has since pioneered such revolutionary concepts as configurable computing, involving computer chips that can modify themselves in response to the task at hand.
		Thelma Estrin worked with her husband on the WEIZAC, then joined UCLA's Brain Research Institute, where she introduced what was at that time considered a novel concept: using computers in medical research.
	www.today.ucla.edu /2000/001010professor.html (434 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Gerald Estrin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		What allowed the seemingly impossible project to succeed, Estrin recalled, was the can-do optimism and improvisational genius of Israelis, just five years after they had established their state.
		"The WEIZAC project drove me to make a contribution beyond my dreams," Estrin, now 82, reminisced recently in his Santa Monica home.
		The contributions of the two WEIZAC pioneers have been honored and perpetuated through the Estrin Family Chair in Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute, on whose board of governors Estrin served for more than two decades.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Estrin_Gerald_18286187.htm (726 words)

	Computer History Museum - Lectures - Nature or Nurture: My Life in Technology, So Far
		Rare in such a young industry, Judy Estrin is a second-generation computer scientist who has been around computing all of her life.
		Her parents, Thelma and Gerald Estrin, both PhD's in electrical engineering and IEEE Fellows, worked together when Judy was an infant to build Israel's first mainframe computer, the Weizac, based on the principles developed by John von Neumann.
		In graduate school at Stanford in 1975, at age 20, Judy tested TCP/IP protocols as part of Vint Cerf's group, just as the details of the early Internet were being formed.
	www.computerhistory.org /events/lectures/estrin_03052003 (298 words)

	UCLA CSD Faculty Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He served as research engineer in the von Neumann group at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ from 1950-56.
		In 1954-5, he was Director of the Electronic Computer Project at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel where he led the development of WEIZAC, the first large-scale electronic computer outside of the United States or Western Europe.
		He is an IEEE Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
	www.cs.ucla.edu /csd/people/faculty_pages/estrin_text.html (226 words)

	WITI - Hall of Fame
		She was one of the first to use computer technology to solve problems in health care and in medical research, designing the first system for analog-digital conversion of electrical activity from the nervous system.
		Dr. Estrin helped design Israel's first computer, the WEIZAC, in 1954.
		She was the director of the Data Processing Laboratory at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA, and she published 50 technical papers on the use of computer technology in the health care field.
	www.witi.com /center/witimuseum/halloffame/1999/testrin.php (468 words)

	JTA NEWS
		Professor Gerald Estrin explains the flow diagram of the WEIZAC mathematical unit to his staff.
		LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17 (JTA) — When young Princeton engineer Jerry Estrin arrived in Haifa on a slow immigrant boat in late 1953 to build the Middle East’s first computer, he faced just two problems.
		What allowed the seemingly impossible project to succeed,...
	www.jta.org /page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=14753&intcategoryid=5 (152 words)

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