Mordechai Kikayon
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Mordehai Kikayon (Hebrew: מרדכי קיקיון, also transliterated as Mordechai Kikion) (1915-1993) was one of the founders of the computer industry of Israel, the organizer and first head of Mamram. Before and after Mamram he was with the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.[1][2]
Mordechai Kikayon was born in Russian Empire and immigrated to the land of Israel in 1924.[3] He was appointed to be the first commander of Mamram by head of Operations Directorate aluf Yitzhak Rabin on June 26, 1959. [2][4] He was the first Israeli civilian to head a military unit.[5]
He received the Kaplan Prize (a prize for increasing labor productivity) for the establishment of the computer center at Rafael after he left Mamram.
See also
- Kikoin, for a possible origin of the surname
References
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- ^ Amira Shahar, בחזית המחשוב . ממר״ם, מורשת מרכז המחשבים בצה״ל , ISBN 9650511644, 2002
- ^ a b Mamram over the Years, a mamram archive
- ^ הקמת ממר"ם בעשור הראשון (Establishment of Mamram, First Decade) (retrieved May 3 2022)
- ^ "Word of the Day / Madpeset: How IBM Invented the Modern Word for Printer", Haaretz, November 12, 2013
- ^ ממר"ם (Retrieved May 3, 2022)
Further reading
- "The WEIZAC Challenge: Building an Electronic Brain in Rehovot", published in: WEIZAC: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945–1963) (behind the paywall)