Overview
- Provides a detailed and richly documented account of a unique technological undertaking in the newly-born State of Israel
- Was, unlike most of the early computer projects, privately financed, mainly by the global Jewish community
- Draws on a wealth of documents and historical insights to reveal the processes and powers that led to the successful completion of the project
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology (BRIEFSHIST)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Leo Corry on WEIZAC
- Link Between Zionist Vision and Science and Technology
- Impact of WEIZAC on Scientific Activities in Israel
- Building an Electronic Brain in Rehovot
- Connection Between the Jewish Community and Wiezac
- WEIZAC and the Jewish Community
- WEIZAC as a Zionist Success Story
- Israeli and Electronic Computing in the Early 1950s
- The Effects of Israel`s First Digital Computer
About this book
The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a “new nation” in the early 1950s. It was created in Israel, even though the feasibility of this project was actually close to null when it was initially conceived, in 1946, and, unlike most of the early computer projects, was privately financed mainly by the Jewish world community. The book draws on a wealth of documents and historical insights to reveal the processes and powers that led to the successful completion of the project and, as well as its actual impact on scientific activities in Israel, and on the rise of a local computing community.
Based on archival data, the book shows how a synergy of personal dedication together with an organizational and national mission that links the Zionist vision with science and technology for the Jewish people helped to achieve a well-defined goal.The book offers intriguing insights and refreshing perspectives to all readers interested in the Zionist movement or inthe history of computing.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Raya Leviathan
A Computer Science PhD (Weizmann Institute of Science) and History of Technology PhD (Tel Aviv University). Software programmer and team leader with both industrial and academic experience. Currently, a research associate in Tel Aviv University.
Leo Corry
Dean of Humanities, Bert and Barbara Cohn Professor of History and Philosophy of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: WEIZAC: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945–1963)
Authors: Leo Corry, Raya Leviathan
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25734-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25733-0Published: 20 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25734-7Published: 16 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2211-4564
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4572
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 105
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Computing, History of the Middle East, History of Technology, Culture and Technology, Innovation/Technology Management