Computer Science Faculty Building

The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Hebrew: הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל; commonly abbreviated as Technion IIT) is a university in Haifa, Israel, founded 1924. The Technion was instituted with a focus on physical sciences, engineering, and architecture, but has also become one of the top medical schools in the world - boasting more current Nobel Laureates on faculty than any other medical school in the world [1]. The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Crowded Shibuya, Tokyo shopping district An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 408 KB) Summary The Computer Science Faculty building, named after Taub, in the Technion Institute for Science, Haifa, Israel. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 408 KB) Summary The Computer Science Faculty building, named after Taub, in the Technion Institute for Science, Haifa, Israel. ... Institute of Technology is also the name of a vocational school in California. ... “Hebrew” redirects here. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ...

The Technion offers both undergraduate and graduate studies in a wide range of fields, including:

• Electrical engineering
• Civil and environmental engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Biomedical engineering
• Chemical engineering
• Food engineering and biotechnology
• Agricultural engineering
• Aerospace engineering
• Industrial engineering and management
• Computer science
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Architecture and urban planning
• Science education and technology education
• Medicine
• Materials science

Currently the Technion teaches around 13,000 students, about 10,000 of whom are undergraduates. Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. ... Environmental engineering[1][2] is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the environment (air, water, and/or land resources), to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites. ... Mechanical engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of principles of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. ... The AbioCor artificial heart, an example of a biomedical engineering application of mechanical engineering with biocompatible materials for Cardiothoracic Surgery using an artificial organ. ... Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the application of physical science (e. ... Food engineering refers to the engineering aspects of food production and processing. ... The structure of insulin Biological technology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. ... Agricultural engineers develop engineering science and technology in the context of agricultural production and processing and for the management of natural resources. ... Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft, and related topics. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens. ... The first few hydrogen atom electron orbitals shown as cross-sections with color-coded probability density Physics (Greek: (phúsis), nature and (phusiké), knowledge of nature) is the branch of science concerned with the discovery and characterization of universal laws which govern matter, energy, space, and time. ... It has been suggested that the central science be merged into this article or section. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Architecture (from Latin, architectura and ultimately from Greek, a master builder, from αρχι- chiefs, leader , builder, carpenter)[1] is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ... Urban planning is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest towns to the worlds largest cities. ... Science education is the field concerned with sharing science content and process with individuals not traditionally considered part of the scientific community. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... medicines, see medication and pharmacology. ... The Materials Science Tetrahedron, which often also includes Characterization at the center Materials science is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering. ...

Early history

The first (historic) building of the Technion, now The National Museum of Science, Technology and Space.

The Technion was conceived in the early 1900s by the German-Jewish fund Ezrah, as a school of engineering and sciences, and the only higher learning institution, in then Ottoman Palestine. The cornerstone was laid in 1912, but studies began only 12 years later, following an intense debate over the language of instruction. Ezrah deemed the then-developing Modern Hebrew inappropriate for scientific instruction, and demanded that German be used instead. However, in the aftermath of World War I and the decline of Germany's influence as a European superpower, Hebrew was adopted. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 644 KB) Summary The National Museum of Science, Technology and Space (Daniel and Matilda Recanati Center) in Haifa, Israel. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 644 KB) Summary The National Museum of Science, Technology and Space (Daniel and Matilda Recanati Center) in Haifa, Israel. ... The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ...

The Technion was opened in 1924, although the official opening ceremony took place in 1925.

The first class amounted to 16 students, majoring in civil engineering and architecture.

During the 1930s, the Technion absorbed many Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi Germany and its neighboring countries.

Until the opening of the school of engineering in the Ben Gurion University in the early 1970s, the Technion was the only institution in the country offering engineering degrees. The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב) was founded in 1969, in Beer Sheva, Israel. ...

Faculty of Medicine

The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion, located on the shore of the Mediterranean sea in the Bat Galim district of Haifa, Israel.

The Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Faculty of Medicine is one of three state sponsored medical schools in Israel. It was founded in 1969 and is active in basic science research and preclinical medical training in anatomy, biochemistry, biophysics, immunology, microbiology, physiology, pharmacology. Other facilities on the Faculty of Medicine campus include teaching laboraories, an exhaustive medical library, lecture halls and seminar rooms. Academic programs are offered at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine leading to the Master of Science (M.S.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degrees. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

They have developed collaborative research and medical education programs with the world's leading institutions in medicine and bio-medical engineering including Johns Hopkins University and Mayo Medical College. Similarly, the Technion American Medical Students (TEAMS) program [2] at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine offers an American-styled, four-year, graduate medical training program geared towared American & Canadian students that wish to take advantage of the academic resources of the Technion, but plan to return to North America to practice medicine. The instruction and testing of TEAMS program is entirely in English.

Distinguished faculty

Architecture and Town Planning Faculty building

• Computer Science Professor Emeritus Abraham Lempel and Electrical Engineering Professor Emeritus Yaacov Ziv, developers of the widely-used Lempel-Ziv (LZW) compression algorithm.
• Professor Avram Hershko and Professor Aaron Ciechanover, recipients of the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
• Professor Nathan Rosen (d. December 18, 1995), co-author (with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky) of a famous 1935 physics paper about the EPR paradox in quantum mechanics.
• Professor Dan Shechtman, first observer of quasicrystals.
• Professor Asher Peres, co-discoverer of the phenomenon of quantum teleportation and distinguished researcher in quantum information theory. He was awarded the 2004 Rothschild Prize in Physics.
• Professor (emeritus) Jacob Bear, world-renown teacher, researcher, and author in the field of mathematical hydrogeology.

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Famous graduates

(in alphabetical order by last name)

• Shai Agassi - IT entrepreneur, Former Executive Board member of SAP AG
• Itzhak Bentov - inventor and author
• Andrei Broder - captcha developer, prominent search engine Vice President at Yahoo, formerly vice president at AltaVista
• Yaron Brook - president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute
• Yuval Neeman- Israeli physicist. One of his greatest achievements in physics was his discovery of the quark model
• Uzia Galil - founding father of the Israeli science-based industries
• Andi Gutmans - Developer of PHP and Co-founder of Zend Technologies
• Uzi Landau - Israeli politician
• Daniel Lewin - co-founder and CTO of Akamai, holder of two Technion degrees, speculated to have been killed while resisting AA Flight 11 hijackers according to the 9-11 Commission Report
• Udi Manber - BS 1975, MS 1978, prominent search engine developer and vice-president at Google, formerly vice-president at Amazon.com
• Avraham Shochat, Israeli politician
• Zeev Suraski - Developer of PHP and Co-founder of Zend Technologies
• Yossi Vardi, civil servant, entrepreneur
• Avraham Yaski - Winner of the 1982 Israel Prize for Architecture.
• Zohar Zisapel - BSEE 1970, founder of the RAD corporations

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Miscellaneous facts

• A group of Technion graduates created PHP (versions 3 through 5,) a web programming language that is installed on more than 80% of the web servers worldwide.

• Besides academic studies and research, the Technion offers many after-school and summer enrichment courses for interested youth. These courses range from introductory electronics and computer programming to aerospace, architecture, biology, chemistry and physics.

PHP is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. ...

See also

• List of universities in Israel

There are eight official universities in Israel. ...

External links

• Official Technion website
• Technion American Medical Students Program - Student Website
• Technion Foreign Medical Students Program

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