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Mordechai Kikayon

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Mordehai Kikayon
מרדכי קיקיון
Kikayon demonstrating Philco computer to Levi Eshkol, 1964
Born1915
Russian Empire
Died1993
Known forFounding the computer industry in Israel, first head of Mamram
AwardsKaplan Prize
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsMamram, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems

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 [he] (a prize for increasing labor productivity) for the establishment of the computer center at Rafael after he left Mamram.

See also

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  • Kikoin, for a possible origin of the surname

References

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  1. ^ Amira Shahar, בחזית המחשוב . ממר״ם, מורשת מרכז המחשבים בצה״ל , ISBN 9650511644, 2002
  2. ^ a b Mamram over the Years, a mamram archive
  3. ^ הקמת ממר"ם בעשור הראשון (Establishment of Mamram, First Decade) (retrieved May 3 2022)
  4. ^ "Word of the Day / Madpeset: How IBM Invented the Modern Word for Printer", Haaretz, November 12, 2013
  5. ^ ממר"ם (Retrieved May 3, 2022)

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