Martin Land


Education

  PhD, Physics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 1996.
   Thesis: "Off-Shell Quantum Electrodynamics"
  MS, Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1986.
   Thesis: "Operator Ordering Ambiguity in Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics"
  MS, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, 1979.
  BA, Physics, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1977.
   Thesis: "The Clifford Algebra Over Rn"

Curriculum Vitae

  2007 - present  The Open University of Israel.  Department of Computer Science.
Faculty Mentor, senior seminar course: Computer Networks / Distributed Algorithms.
  1997 - present  Hadassah Academic College.  Department of Computer Science.
Senior lecturer in computer science, especially computer architecture, microprocessors and computer networking, wireless networks.
  1996 - 2000 Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies.
George Washington University, Tel Aviv University, and Holon Institute of Technology.

Research fellow in the study of cyber-terrorism, critical infrastructure protection and the social responsibility of the computing profession. Technical editor, Terrorism, a scholarly Internet journal (1996 - 1999).
  1995 - 1998 Holon Institute of Technology.  Department of Communications Engineering.
Lecturer in communications engineering, especially computer networking.
  1995 Technical Writer.
  1989 - 1995 Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Department of Computer Science.
Overall responsibility for hardware development in the Makbilan Parallel Computing Project and day-to-day management of the Hardware Laboratory.
  1982 Bankers Trust Company, New York.
Assistant Treasurer (Systems Engineer), Telecommunications Division. Planned expansion of data communications facilities for computer-based international electronic funds transfer management system.
  1979 - 1982 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Member of Technical Staff
   1981 - 1982 Long Haul Lightwave System Development Group.
Research and development for application of fiber optic technology to long haul telephone network.
   1979 - 1981 Lightwave Applications and Technology Group.
Research and development for application of fiber optic technology to computer networking, television transmission, and special services, such as the 1980 Winter Olympics.
  1978 U. S. Department of Energy, Environmental Measurements Laboratory.
Engineering and development of instrumentation for measurement of atmospheric and subterranean environmental pollution.
  1973 - 1977 Reed College, Portland Oregon
   1973 - 1975 Teaching assistant.
   1975 - 1977 Research grant for study of Pockels effect in optical communications.

Other Professional Activities

  International Association for Relativistic Dynamics, Secretary 2004 - 2006, President 2006 -
  Licensed electrical engineer

Last updated 2 November 2008, Martin Land, martin@multinet.net.il