| Gerald Estrin | |
 Gerald Estrin with his wife Thelma. Santa Monica, California. Sept. 2007
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| Born | New York, USA |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | IAS (1950-1956), WIS (1954-1955), UCLA (1956-1991) |
Prof. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Estrin, an IEEE Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Estrin received his B. S, M. S. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin in 1948, 1949, and 1951, respectively.
He served as research engineer in the von Neumann group at IAS from 1950-56, this led to an invitation from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel to direct the WEIZAC Project in 1954-5
He served as Chairperson of the UCLA Computer Science Department from 1979 to 1982 and from 1985 to 1988. The WEIZAC ( Weiz mann A utomatic C omputer) was the first computer in Israel, and one of the first large-scale stored-program He retired in 1991, and was recalled as Professor Emeritus. [1]
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