Cover: Artistic impression of a non-repeating quasicrystal pa ern showing fivefold symmetry. Quasicrystals were discovered by Technion Distinguished Professor and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2011, Dan Shechtman. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 1

All great ideas start with a silent, creative space in which inspiration is born. In 1912 there was no state of Israel, there were no universities in the Middle East, and there was no infrastructure. But there were dreams of courageous noble endeavor and the power of inspiration. 100 years ago, on April 11th, 1912, that big idea found form in a cornerstone – of the first university in the Middle East: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Israel’s first and greatest start-up was born.

quasicrystal It starts here. diffraction pattern 2

“Everything started at the Technion.” - Yossi Vardi, Technion graduate and serial entrepreneur

Full circle cornerstone2012

Welcome to this centennial has impacted millions Technion-educated maximize this success, edition of the President’s of scientists, students, pioneers lead nine of the two faculties joined Report. One hundred entrepreneurs and citizens Israel’s top ten exporting forces this year to form years ago, we started at worldwide. Of the 300 companies, which the Technion Computer ground level. There were no non-American NASDAQ account for nearly half Engineering Center (TCE), buildings, few engineers, companies, 72 are based of Israel’s $45 billion in designed to build on this no funds for salaries or in Israel, and of those, annual exports. Together, global leadership. equipment and no reason to two-thirds have Technion investment in the Technion believe that anything would graduates at the helm. A gives a remarkable 76 Technion reaches its come of such an ambitious flood of innovations has percent return, according to centennial year with enterprise. The slow and originated from Technion: a recent study by Technion the blessing of a new difficult development of memory sticks; the Ziv- Profs. Shlomo Maital and Nobel laureate – the third the Technion traversed two Lempel data compression Amnon Frenkel, published in Technion scientist to receive World Wars, the founding algorithm; Azilect®, for Technion Nation. the world’s highest honor in of the independent State treating early-stage seven years. In many ways, of Israel, and many more Parkinson’s; deciphering Technion’s Electrical Distinguished Prof. Dan regional wars, in which the secrets of the ubiquitin Engineering and Computer Shechtman exemplifies all the Technion relentlessly protein degradation system, Science faculties led the that is Technion. adhered to its vision of or the exotic structure of birth and growth of Israel’s His discovery of scientific leadership while quasicrystals. high-tech industry. It is no quasicrystals – a new dedicating itself to the surprise that industrial form of matter – showed development, health, and Technion graduates not giants such as Google, scientific authenticity and security of the State of Israel only start businesses, they Microsoft and Intel are the courage to pursue that and humankind. also manage and lead so deeply involved with which is entirely ‘out of the them. Of Israel’s top 125 Technion, employing many box’ relative to conventional Today, Technion, with business leaders, one third students even before they understanding. His over 70,000 graduates, are Technion graduates. finish their studies. To insistence on his discovery PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 3

“An ambitious enterprise.” - Prof. Peretz Lavie

(l-r) Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie; Cornell President Prof. David J. Skorton; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the announcement of the historic partnership, December 19, 2011. in the midst of rejection strong, exemplifies the This year, I joined Israeli and his recruitment of ingredients of Technion’s students on a visit to the scientific allies shows a global success. site of the concentration spirit of determination and camps of Auschwitz- collaboration. Throughout In December 2011, the Birkenau in Poland. Together the years Dan’s dedication world’s eyes turned once with those talented young to students and his again to Technion with people – the bright minds of cultivation of a grounded, the announcement that the future – in that desolate entrepreneurial spirit Technion and Cornell place, we were able to feel through a synthesis of University had been chosen and say to our ancestors: networking, innovation and by NY Mayor Bloomberg “It’s OK. We did it. We won.” passion to make Israel to launch the Technion- Cornell Innovation Institute Enjoy the 2012 centennial (TCII) in New York City. This issue of the President’s unprecedented venture Report. I hope you will join Technion centennial stamp is a new paradigm in us in creating the hope, issued by the Israel Postal education. TCII is positioned inspiration and excellence Company in February 2012. to energize the economy of for centuries to come. New York. It also represents Israel’s first step into academic globalization, and the impact of this new cornerstone will be felt worldwide. Prof. Peretz Lavie Technion President 4

Prof. Dan Shechtman receives the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

On December 10, 2011, of crystallography to include Technion Distinguished Prof. a new form of matter – Dan Shechtman became quasiperiodic crystals. Israel’s 10th Nobel Laureate. In his speech, after receiving Israel has four Nobel the Nobel medal from Laureates in Chemistry, of Swedish King Carl XVI which three are Technion Gustaf, the 70-year-old faculty. Sole recipient of the chemistry professor said prize, Shechtman closed a it is a scientist’s duty to circle of scientific discovery, promote education, rational isolation, progress and thinking and tolerance. The page in Dan Shechtman’s lab logbook triumph resulting in a recording his April 8, 1982, discovery. change in the classical laws PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 5 also known as: also known

“Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is ‘truth’.” -Dist. Prof. Dan Shechtman, in his acceptance speech, December 2011

1982 April 8, 1982. While on sabbatical at the National Bureau of Standards in Maryland, Dan Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase that opened the field of quasiperiodic crystals. Today, he says, he is joined by hundreds of enthusiastic scientists worldwide. “Without these dedicated scientists the field would not be where it is today.” SHECHTMANITE 6

Meeting at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)* in 1985 just months after shaking the foundations of materials science with publication of his discovery of quasicrystals, Dan Shechtman, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discusses the material’s surprising atomic structure with collaborators. From left to right are Shechtman; Frank Biancaniello, NIST; Denis Gratias, National Science Research Center, France; John Cahn, NIST; Leonid Bendersky, Johns Hopkins University (now at NIST); and Robert Schaefer, NIST. ‘Shechtmanite’

Today, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Dan Shechtman calls them quasicrystals, but back in the ’80s when the new class of matter was accepted only by a few, it was dubbed “Shechtmanite,” after the man who guided the field through conception and infancy. The name “Shechtmanite” embodied the risk of humiliation if the material would indeed turn out to be a kind of “twinning,” as Shechtman’s opponents claimed.

Revealing a new kind of crystalline order, Shechtman demonstrated a clear diffraction pattern with a fivefold symmetry. The pattern was recorded from an aluminum-manganese (Al-Mn) alloy which had been rapidly cooled after melting. Shechtman’s discovery was initially viewed with skepticism. “I feared for my scientific and academic career,” ©H. Mark Helfer/NIST says Shechtman.

*NIST was known as the National Bureau of Standards at the time. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 7 fivefold non- repeating pattern

“The system here encourages originality. We are free thinkers. This is the Israeli spirit. Free thinking encourages successful scientists.” - Dan Shechtman, Distinguished Professor and Nobel laureate

In November 1984, Physical Crystallography has changed He instigated the Technion recounts. But his loyalty Review Letters published its basic definition of a crystal, course in Technological to his discovery never Shechtman’s discovery reducing it to the ability to Entrepreneurship in 1986, wavered. “A good scientist in a scientific paper co- produce a clear-cut diffraction referring to it as “my baby,” needs faith.” authored with three other pattern and acknowledging and has overseen it annually scientists: Ilan Blech (Israel), that crystallographic order can ever since. Shechtman is Denis Gratias (France) be either periodic or aperiodic. invited to lecture worldwide and John Cahn (USA). about the Technological Wider acclaim followed, The Faith of Entrepreneurship course, mainly from physicists and Good Science arousing much interest. mathematicians, and later He considers himself a from crystallographers. Dan Shechtman was born missionary, “I coordinate Pioneering contributors to in Tel Aviv on January 24, the course with pleasure. the field of quasicrystals 1941. His dream, while still I do it for Israel.” “The most important are Prof. Dov Levine of the in high school, was to study thing about the Technion Faculty of Physics at the Technion. “In 1962, I Between 2001 and 2004, and Prof. Paul Steinhardt commenced my studies in Shechtman served as quasicrystals is of Princeton University. Mechanical Engineering at chairperson of the sciences Levine and Steinhardt made Technion. I graduated in 1966. division of the Israel Academy their meaning for the connection between a There was a recession and no of Sciences and Humanities. fundamental science. theoretical tenfold symmetry work, so I opted to continue for Today, he continues to model proposed by Prof. Alan a master’s degree.” oversee the translation of the They have rewritten Mackay and Shechtman’s Nobel Prize scientific posters the first chapter in diffraction pattern, and Today, Shechtman is a into Hebrew, and their annual developed the mathematical Distinguished Professor. distribution to schools the textbooks of model for the structure of non- He holds the Philip Tobias throughout the country. periodic icosahedral phases Chair in Material Sciences, ordered matter.” found in metallic alloys. and heads the Louis Edelstein Shechtman has a favorite Prof. Sven Lidin Center for Quasicrystals picture of a line of a dozen Professor of Inorganic Today, over 40 scientific and the Wolfson Centre German Shepherds. In front books have been dedicated for Interface Science in the of them, with self-assured Chemistry, Lund University to quasiperiodic crystals, and Department of Materials insouciance, walks a serene Member of the Nobel the International Society of Engineering. cat. “I felt like that cat,” he Committee for Chemistry 8 cornerstone 2012 100 years ahead.

December 19, 2011: All eyes and its Ivy League partner focus on New York City and CornellTC University have won a II Haifa as a new paradigm of New York City contest to build higher education is born. In an applied science campus with a dramatic press conference a grant of land on Roosevelt given by New York City Mayor Island and $100 million for Michael Bloomberg, it is infrastructure improvements. announced that Technion – TCII – the Technion-Cornell Israel Institute of Technology Innovation Institute is born. Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute @ CornellNYC Tech Campus

Rendering by Skidmore, Owings & Merill LLP PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 9 “Today will be remembered as a defining moment... In a word, this project will be transformative.” TC II- NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg NY “The Technion was founded in 1912… 100 years later we come to New York to close the historic circle… The impact of this new cornerstone will be felt worldwide for centuries to come.” - President Peretz Lavie 10

“The Technion is among the world’s leaders in turning science into careers and It starts here. into products.” - Prof. David J. Skorton, President, Cornell University

At podium Prof. Peretz Lavie, Technion President. (r) Prof. David Skorton, Cornell University President. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 11

Google CEO Larry Page announces the company’s commitment to be the interim home of the Technion-Cornell New York City partnership.

(l-r) Google CEO Larry Page, Cornell University President David J. Skorton, TCII Founding Director Prof. Craig Gotsman, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

is as exciting as a Nobel,” beyond that, will work closely he said. “The Technion was with affiliated companies founded in 1912… 100 years during their studies.” later we come to New York to close the historic circle. TCII will offer a unique We are building the bridge master’s degree allowing between Israel and the U.S., students to specialize in one Technion and Cornell, New of three tracks or ‘hubs’. The York and Haifa.” first hub is related to digital media, the second hub is The NYC Tech Campus related to medical informatics is intended to bolster job and devices, and the third creation in the city and hub to smart buildings, (l) Prof. Craig Gotsman, On the eve of Technion’s generate some 600 spinoff urban environments and Founding Director cornerstone centennial companies and $23 billion infrastructures.” Technion-Cornell celebrations, directly after in economic activity over Innovation Institute (TCII) and Prof. Dan attending the Nobel Prize the next three decades, said It will be a vibrant institute, Huttenlocher, Founding ceremony in Sweden in Mayor Michael Bloomberg. located on the permanent Dean, CornellNYC Tech. which Technion brought CornellNYC Tech campus on home Israel’s tenth Nobel “The goal of the entire NYC Roosevelt Island, with some Prize, Technion President Tech campus, and the TCII 100 faculty and more than 500 Prof. Peretz Lavie received within it, is to turn NYC into graduate students. It will be the exciting news that the high-tech capital of the strongly engaged with and Technion would be Israel’s world,” says Technion Prof. impact the local NYC high-tech first university to initiate an Craig Gotsman, Founding industry and will be an integral institute of higher education Director of TCII. “These part of the city.” in the United States. “I just engineers will receive a top- came from Stockholm… this notch technical education, but 12

CENTURYcentennial celebrations PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 13

(l-r) Technion’s three Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, Distinguished Professors Dan Shechtman, Avram Hershko, and Aaron Ciechanover, were guests of honor at the festive concert of the Shalom Zielony Technion Choir and Orchestra, marking the official opening of the cornerstone centennial CENTURYcelebrations. 14 PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 15 16

world class. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 17

“I will leave some excellent colleagues and great friends when I finish my degree, with relations that will hopefully remain my whole lifetime.” - PhD student Sebastian Reinartz

Attracted to Technion studying the processes in project collaborations, by the Lorry I. Lokey neuronal networks workshops and a multitude Interdisciplinary Center that govern learning of invited speakers, so for for Life Sciences and and memory. me this is a great set-up. Engineering and the pioneering research of “I was attracted by the Generally speaking, this place Prof. Shimon Marom at the creative concepts that were of intense multidisciplinary Network Biology Research published by the group of cooperation can stand as Laboratories, Sebastian Prof. Marom, and his open- a role model for the future Reinartz from Germany is minded way of dealing with of science.” just one of the hundreds his students,” says Reinartz. of graduate students at Technion immersed in “It is always advantageous life sciences and to break walls. Some engineering research. questions, especially when it comes to complicated Reinartz has an ambition issues like the brain, can to control a single neuron only be solved by combining within a living network and different scientific fields… establish a method for There are international 18

belief experience risk consequence PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 19

It starts here.up the game.

Can you predict and change car accident as a result of “In factories, it’s not human behavior? Prof. Ido risk-taking on the road. A enough to publicize Erev of the Davidson Faculty desirable event might include safety instructions.” Rule of Industrial Engineering winning the lottery. His enforcement is particularly and Management says research shows that people effective when it implies a “yes.” With a background exhibit oversensitivity to rare high probability of gentle in psychology, Erev events when they respond to punishment. Field studies is pioneering the a description of the incentive demonstrate that when a multidisciplinary field of structure and when they new policy was implemented, Cognitive Science, to set plan their behavior, but they compliance with safety up models for decision- exhibit the opposite bias procedures increased from making and patterns behind when they gain experience. 50 percent to 95 percent. behavioral risk taking. The results of his research Erev’s research has been Erev’s research focuses on have been applied to improve applied in factories the effect of low probability compliance rates of safety and at the Rambam events. An undesirable and hygiene regulations in Health Care Campus. event would be having a factories and in hospitals. 20

get virtual PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 21

Advanced virtual tools will and builders, bringing be a game changer in the the advanced tools buildings of the future. needed to create digital At the Les and Eileen representations at all Seskin Virtual Reality and stages of the building Controlled Construction process, and to simulate Laboratory of the Ecological real-world performance. Engineering Systems Center, researchers are One benefit of such applying innovation to methods is less waste in create better building actual construction, the construction methods for removal of costly design the development of smarter, errors and conflicts greener buildings. between building systems, and greater degrees of The lab also supports component prefabrication, communication between such as complete plumbing. architects, engineers, 22

The science of healing

Prof. Beth Murinson PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 23

For new recruit from Johns Hopkins University Prof. Beth Murinson, the science of pain is a critical part of medicine. Her research is focused on chemotoxic and traumatic injuries to the nervous system, and her aim is to decrease the pain factor as much as possible in nerve injuries and injuries to the back. “We’re hoping to find a methodology that may prevent nerve injuries from becoming painful, as well as to develop neuroprotective strategies, as some drugs can do damage to the nerve system.” Murinson is an attending neurologist at the Technion-affiliated Rambam Health Care Campus with a clinic specializing in painful neuropathies and nerve injuries. She teaches and mentors Israeli and American medical students in the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. Aaron Winterstern MD - PhD student 24

The energy revolution starts here.

Dr Carmel Rotschild PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 25 26

power 2B

Sunlight Reclaimed by developing efficient appliances to convert the New recruit at Technion Dr lost rays of the sun that Carmel Rotschild is leading silicon is unable to process. a multidisciplinary team at the Faculty of Mechanical This involves the fusion (or Engineering to develop up conversion) of infrared innovative applications to solar radiation to make that maximize the energy we can power accessible to silicon, harness from the sun. and the fission (or down conversion) of radiation On the one hand we have in the blue range to near sunlight – an infinite source infrared radiation, which of energy – with a broad could double the quantum spectrum of every bandwidth efficiency of photovoltaics. in creation. On the other, we The highly multidisciplinary have silicon – an abundant approach includes the material made from sand design and fabrication of electricity by silicon solar advance energy research in and the front-runner as the nano-scale optical materials cells. It would be nice to Israel is shared by the Grand material most likely to be within an optical cavity, look at nonlinear optics Technion Energy Program used in photovoltaic cells for and Rotschild and his as a toolbox for converting (GTEP) and the Russell Berrie solar energy panels. Between multidisciplinary team draw inefficient parts of the solar Nanotechnology Institute the simplicity of silicon on expertise in nonlinear spectrum into emissions (RBNI) who are jointly and the broad spectrum of optics, materials engineering, where solar panels can be supporting his work. sunlight, falls the innovation. and energy transfer in more efficient.” molecules. “The energy revolution is As oil reserves deplete and Rotschild’s reception as already here,” says Rotschild. energy prices rise, solar “My research combines a new recruit has been “If you include the cost that power is emerging as an nonlinear optics and excellent, he says. “Everyone we as a society pay for using essential source of clean, luminescent solar is enthusiastic to help and petrol, coal and fossil fuels in affordable energy. The concentrators to it’s really good to be here. terms of health and pollution, scientific searchlights are build accessories for The students are great; the we are reaching an era on for new discoveries that photovoltaics,” explains collaboration is great. The where solar energy becomes could make solar energy Rotschild. “The main issue system really supports you.” affordable for society.’ competitive to fossil fuels. that limits efficiency, is the mismatch between the broad Rotschild has a personal Rotschild says that Dr Carmel Rotschild – who solar spectrum, and the passion for creating cleaner, multidisciplinary programs arrived at the Faculty of narrow spectral response of more efficient ways to power such as GTEP are powerful Mechanical Engineering from photovoltaics. For example: our world: he lost a friend platforms for attracting MIT in August 2011 – has silicon is very effective at one to cancer and is concerned scientists to Israel. “Energy a dream to increase the micron wavelength, but light that air pollution was a chief is a key part of the Technion efficiency of photovoltaics with a longer wavelength culprit. And his belief in vision, and my lab is evidence by around 20 percent, cannot be converted into the urgency of the need to of that,” he says. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 27

“The energy revolution is already here.” - Dr Carmel Rotschild

Here Comes the Sun production of fuels. The Center development of alternative (NG&P) engineering taught will provide unparalleled fuels and reducing global in cooperation with Haifa Technion’s GTEP has opportunity to advance this dependence on oil. A key University’s Department of launched Israel’s I-CORE field on a national scale, component of I-CORE will be Marine Geosciences. Initially, for solar fuels – a national through fruitful cooperation the establishment of central many of the courses will scientific center of excellence among institutions, and to laboratories to bolster be conducted in English as to develop the alternative leverage the research in Israel intramural synergies and experts will be brought in energy supplies of the future. and abroad. promote team endeavors from leading international across Israel. This in institutions. Technion is Led by GTEP Director Prof. The subject of alternative turn will contribute to the coordinating this initiative Gideon Grader, top Israeli fuels is high on the global development of patents with the Ministry of National scientists from Technion, scientific and industrial and commercial ventures in Infrastructure. Ben-Gurion University of the agenda as expanding various spheres. I-CORE will Negev and the Weizmann populations, increasing also expand cooperation with The Master of Engineering Institute of Science are standards of living and partners in the United States degree is available to pooling resources and depleting oil reserves has and consortia led by the graduates of civil, chemical, brainpower to pioneer the created an urgent need to European Union. mechanical and aerospace energy solutions of tomorrow unlock new sources of energy. engineering. It spans a study in the form of solar fuels. The Helping to find solutions at period of 15 months plus three Israeli consortium includes 27 the global level and reduce Fossil Smart months’ project work, which senior researchers and is to the world’s dependence on will be implemented in the expand to include returning oil will have a positive impact With the discovery of offshore industrial sector. Israeli scientists from the on Israel’s security and natural gas, and the new world’s top universities. status, whether or not those promise of offshore oil shale, solutions are implemented in Israel is entering a new era The Center of Excellence in Israel itself. of energy production and Renewable and Sustainable consumption. To make the Energy will conduct research Research in this field most of new resources, on fuel production through in Israel is still in its Technion initiated a new the use of sunlight, focusing preliminary stages, but has research and education on fuel production from plants tremendous potential to lead infrastructure in natural gas (such as algae and various to significant breakthroughs, and petroleum studies to agricultural crops), breaking which the Technion-led train experts, in particular down water to generate I-CORE will facilitate. This engineers. GTEP now hydrogen, and breaking Center of Excellence is an offers a graduate degree in down carbon dioxide for the important step towards the natural gas and petroleum 28

cyber heights

start here.

According to prize-winning Much of this unseen complex ‘agreement’ in the strict computer scientist Prof. activity is taking place at sense is impossible, due to Hagit Attiya, despite the distant servers where data asynchrony and failures,” revolution in computing is stored not locally on your says Attiya. and communications PC or smart phone but at experienced worldwide, the a remote facility reached As one of few female basic principles remain the through the Internet. “There computer science faculty same. Attiya is researching are ‘farms’ of computing or members in Israel, Attiya is distributed computing – storage servers – which are eager to encourage other the principles that govern big, physical warehouses female scientists to realize systems with many hosting numerous servers,” their potential. “I believe in computing entities. The work explains Attiya, whose role models,” she smiles. of Attiya and her colleagues research studies how allows your quad-core PC to such computing entities “Technion students are multitask despite the vast communicate with one terrific: really smart, number of conflicts that occur another and the degree of innovative and on top of that, during a typical session or ‘agreement’ needed between they are real fighters.” the distributed servers at the them. “My specialty is heart of Internet business how they coordinate their to replicate vast amounts functioning, for example, of data and still provide a creating a consistent order consistent view of it. of updates, without agreeing – in situations where PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 29 30

Prof. Oded Beja and his team on focused field trip to gather live samples.

Totally grounded on planet hard to investigate them… earth, Beja and his team of in order to understand what students are unravelling the bacteria are doing in their mysteries of how the oceans environment – we need of the world harvest the to collect live samples. energy of the sun, through Photosynthesis is very focused field trips to gather important to the ecosystem live samples from the photic of the planet… just as the How could basic research “Scientists are seeking new zones of the Mediterranean, oxygen we breath. About into microbes found in our ways to harvest energy the Sea of Galilee, the Red 50 percent of it is done by oceans impact humankind’s that go beyond regular Sea and the Dead Sea – oceans and 50 percent of exploration of the outer photosynthesis,” says Beja. which it turns out is not so this by cyanobacteria.” precincts of space? dead after all. “The main Regular photosynthesis focus is metagenomics in The lab is now focusing on Groundbreaking biological requires a multitude which you look at the entire photosynthesis genes found research by Prof. Oded of genes, whereas the population of microbes in cyanophages (viruses Beja at the Emerson Family biological research at once, by collecting that infect cyanobacteria) Life Sciences Building has unveiled by Beja shows samples…” says Beja. and on uptake and uncovered that 10 percent of that one single protein can utilization of organic available energy reaching accomplish the same job. Even within our bodies, phosphates in different planet earth is harvested the majority of bacteria is marine microbes. by marine bacteria. uncultured. “This makes it PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 31

oceans of science.

“Photosynthesis is very important to the ecosystem of the planet.” - Prof. Oded Beja 32

innovation starts here

“T3 understands the challenges of the entrepreneur. They know how to balance the needs of the entrepreneur and the academic perception.” - NanoSpun CEO, Ohad Ben Dror

NanoSpun introduces a revolutionary platform for the fabrication of hollow and monolithic fibers and the encapsulation of elements such as enzymes, bacteria cells and drugs. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 33 34

Dr Yael Dror, R&D Manager

T3 Means Business behind a university’s success – was incorporated as a cost-effective in fabrication, and something else whispered company in April of 2011. “We the fibers can be tailored for Cutting-edge innovation at the in the halls of the successful: have a promising technology applications in cleantech frontiers of multidisciplinary People. You need good and a strong team that can (water treatment), medical science, a streamlined, people… team players. drive the company to success.” devices, solar energy, textiles, in-depth approach to and packaging. technology transfer from the Backed by prominent laboratory to the marketplace, NanoSpun: investors, the versatile, “We have received positive and a powerful spirit of Keep it Pure hollow nanofiber innovation feedback from the market,” entrepreneurship that persists first emerged from the says Ben-Dror. through the often turbulent “Success is all about people,” laboratory Prof. Eyal Zussman process of making a raw says Ohad Ben Dror, founder at the Russell Berrie At the forefront of the innovation commercially viable: of NanoSpun, which after two Nanotechnology Institute. young company’s agenda these are the known factors years of intense groundwork Unique in structure and are applications in water PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 35

“Success is all about people.” - NanoSpun CEO, Ohad Ben Dror

treatment – where there is a hydrogels being marketed the local repair of damaged Faculty of Computer Science global demand for advanced by a company he founded, cartilage and bone. The (see page 38) straight to and efficient systems for Regentis Biomaterials. platform technology is a your TV, PC or smart phone, filtration and purification. family of hydrogels called the patented innovation “A replacement knee may Gelrin™. These gels can be promises to break the Based in the Gutwirth eventually be required if the injected or applied to a specific “glass ceiling” of existing Science Park in Technion City, progression of the injury local site. imaging technology, says NanoSpun has already won is not contained. If you are the company. Among its international acclaim. In 2011, injured at age 25, it can be “The company is pretty services, BETTERview can in Italy, the race was on at pretty daunting to know that unique in Israel, and also convert and upgrade old the Nano/Polymer Challenge at age 55 you may need a in the world,” says Seliktar. and cloudy video material – as Nano entrepreneurs knee replacement. We can Regentis recently secured such as those pre-war from across the world alleviate the progressive an additional investment of wedding shots of grandma, presented their innovative degeneration with a therapy $10 million to establish its YouTube material, or even nanotechnologies, business that actually helps repair the European presence and to recent TV programs filmed plans, and long term vision tissue – intervening early expand its ongoing clinical originally in Standard- to an international panel of on and preventing further efforts of Gelrin™. Definition (SD). judges. NanoSpun won the degeneration.” day, with first place in the All Eyes on The process in which several Polymer category and a prize Established in 2004, Super Resolution low-quality images are of €300,000. Regentis Biomaterials is fused into a single, higher- commercializing innovative An unblurred example of resolution outcome is known Regenerate biodegradable hydrogels for the dynamic process of as Super-Resolution (SR). technology transfer at the While conventional methods “If you get a traumatic Technion is the start-up use conversion techniques to injury to the knee, very BETTERview – slated to “blow up” or stretch the SD few treatment options revolutionize the quality video onto an HD display, are available,” says Prof. of HD imaging. Taking BETTERview increases optical Dror Seliktar, giving an advanced algorithms all resolution of a video stream, example of one use of the the way from the research generating an HD stream of innovative biodegradable of Prof. Michael Elad at the vastly superior quality. Gelrin™ 36

“Technion has a rigorous academic atmosphere while being an innovative technological university. Questioning authority is welcomed here, because the Technion aims at giving students an independent and confident mind.” - International student, Yuting Wang

Master of mortar

ISE student Yuting Wang. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 37

International students get hands-on experience in Civil Engineering.

International student Yuting amazing, especially if you achieve academic excellence Wang was among five are willing to spend some while introducing students freshmen students to get on the time exploring other cultures,” to Israel. President’s List. All the students says Sifang Shan. had an average of 91 percent or “ISE makes it a top priority higher and are in the top three “The small classes have to acquaint students with percent of their class. helped me develop a close this unique country, which relationship with the other is as rich in history as it Opened in 2009, the members of the program and is in scientific advances,” Technion International the personal attention from says Academic Head Prof. School of Engineering the teachers and tutors has Amnon Katz. “Through field (ISE) is expanding rapidly, helped my academic skills,” trips, lectures and programs, offering a full BSc program adds Ari Teger from the U.S. students are immersed in in Civil and Environmental Israel’s past and present, Engineering, and a variety of Part of the mission of the becoming closely connected study options. “Life here is International School is to to this dynamic nation.” 38 the scientist behind innovation PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 39

“I really love Technion. This is my home.” - Prof. Michael Elad

What goes through the mind of I caught this ‘wave’ and it took me Computer Science Prof. Michael with it. In the beginning, nobody Elad when the photographer cared much about it. But then it arrives to photograph him for the caught on, and today everybody Technion 2012 President’s Report? is working on it.”

“He could definitely use my Elad founded his own start- algorithms,” laughs Elad, “One up, as well as spending some day, all this will be completely years in industry including at avoided. One day soon I will be the HP labs in Technion City, able to synthesise any image but he says he prefers basic of myself without taking more science. He lets those with than one photo.” entrepreneurial passion apply his pioneering algorithms. It is hard to believe that scientific progress will ever ring the death “I really love the Technion,” knell of the photographer’s art – says Elad, “This is my home.” yet it might revolutionize the craft. Indeed, Elad turned down an The innovative research of Elad offer at Harvard in order to into signal processing, image return to Technion. “I am thrilled processing, and computer vision to be part of a university that is was listed in 2010 by Thomson leading worldwide and that is Reuters Science Watch. In 2012 he also Israeli. I believe that we are received the honor of becoming really excellent in science and a Fellow of the IEEE – the world’s I’m proud to be part of it.” largest association for the advancement of technology. Elad is a member of the “It is mainly because of the terrific Technion Autonomous Systems luck I had in my research – into Project (TASP). sparse representations – which became such a huge topic. 40

Prof. Amit Meller PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 41 come to life.

“We will have the research tools and knowledge to look at a person’s genome and to choose the right drugs.” - Prof. Amit Meller

From the pure mysteries “For Israel, the Lokey nine patents in life sciences “My hope is that the way of basic research, Center represents the to his name, seven of which disease will be diagnosed through to medicine, birth of a new form of life are already licensed. in the next decades will be biotechnology, genetic and sciences,” says Center different from what we have environmental science, and Director Prof. Yuval “We want to be both been doing so far,” says the development of new Shoham, “After the vision, useful and exciting. The Meller, a global pioneer diagnostic and therapeutic comes the implementation: combination of basic and leading two labs at the tools, the Lorry I. Lokey the scouting for top new applied science makes Lokey Center at Technion Center for Life Sciences faculty, the building the experience of research and at Boston University. and Engineering is Israel’s of structures and much more enriching and meta center for research unique laboratories, interesting. Students from “We will have the research into life sciences. the organization of the biophysics side will tools and knowledge to look the clusters, and the always be challenged by the at a person’s genome and Attracting top students empowerment of teaching.” engineers… who know they to choose the right drugs. from across the Technion can do it better. And when an It’s just a matter of bringing faculties, scientists at the One of the key attractions engineer presents a better those technologies to the Lokey Center are joining of the Lokey Center, for new method – for example, for diagnostic market. Our together to unlock the recruit Prof. Amit Meller, was reading an RNA transcript, genomes will be routinely mysteries of life, understand that he saw the opportunity the scientist will challenge sequenced. We will look and heal disease, and apply to integrate two sides of him with ‘where is the for signatures and genome knowledge for the benefit of himself – basic science question?’ I really enjoy this hangers that will alert us to all humankind. and applied engineering. kind of multidisciplinary danger, cause for worry, or “We are living in extremely intellectual interaction – specific needs.” exciting times with respect a positive tension – to how science is to be among colleagues in done,” says Meller, who has the same group.” 42

Great minds think different

“The applications of today rest on the foundations of several decades of basic science research.” - Prof. Naama Brenner PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 43

Superior Synergy

From the advanced frontiers of the emerging science of nanomedicine, through to hands-on practical services such as those offered by the Bioinformatics Knowledge Unit (BKU) that offers life scientists customized computing tools, the Lokey Center is quietly seeding a scientific revolution.

One example of the multidisciplinary groups thriving at the Lokey Center is at the Network Biology Research Laboratory. “It’s important to keep in mind that the applications of today rest on the foundations of several decades of basic scientific research,” says Prof. Naama Brenner of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering.

And the grounded progress and investment in the science of tomorrow continues unabated at the Emerson Family Life Sciences Building. The year 2012 will see the establishment of the new Technion Center for Structural Biology (TCSB). The center, headed by Dr Hay Dvir, will offer facilities for macromolecular crystallography unrivalled anywhere in the Middle East – making Technion a magnet for life sciences worldwide.

The job done by the state-of-the-art X-ray diffractometer to be housed at the Center once would have needed a Synchrotron – a giant facility that would demand half the space of Technion City. “Nowadays, a revolution in brightness allows home-source beams to provide quality comparable to 2nd generation synchrotrons,” says Dr Akram Alian, “This is a huge advancement in what we The Network Biology can do and in the quality of data we can Research Laboratory group: obtain. With the investment of Mr. Lokey, (l-r) Profs. Noam Ziv, Erez Braun, Ron Meir, Technion is now taking life sciences in Naama Brenner, and Shimon Marom Israel to a whole new league.” 44

the new pioneers

“My dream is to create a applications in the field start-up,” says French-born of telecommunications. Deborah Cohen (pictured above), a graduate student in Cohen’s focus is to overcome an elite Electrical Engineering the effects of noise by means of program sponsored by the signal cyclostationary detection. Meyer Foundation, Cohen has This she presented recently already delved into a variety at an international conference of multidisciplinary projects. in Puerto Rico. “People from outside this research area told Working with Prof. Yonina me that they now understand Eldar on signal processing, what ‘sub-Nyquist barrier’ the two are tackling a means,” she says. theoretical question with many “The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is one of the cornerstones of Israel’s development…” - David Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel SOME TECHNION FIRSTS

1st cornerstone of a university in the Middle East. 1st to integrate Hebrew as the official language of teaching. 1st class of engineers and architects in the Middle East. 1st female engineer in Israel. 1st student strike. 1st Department of Aeronautical Engineering in Israel. 1st to decode the ubiquitin system in living cells. 1st student-built microsatellite in space – Gurwin TechSat II. 1st to revolutionize data compression. 1st to launch the Israeli high-tech revolution. 1st isolation of human embryonic stem cells with University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1st in self-assembly with the “live” electricity conducting wire. 1st discovery of quasicrystals. 1st in worldwide research on solitons and light tunneling in quasicrystal arrays. 1st in 3D face recognition. 1st Nobel Laureates in science in the State of Israel. 1st pioneers of nanoscience and technology in Israel. 1st multidisciplinary center of energy science and technology in Israel. 1st institute of technology to enter the New York City Tech Campus. This is the story of how one stone can change the world…

This is Technion: Israel’s first university and a temple of transformation. This is the place that showed the world that if you want it, it is not a dream.

Technion: the rock on which the State of Israel is built, and whose impact is felt in all areas of our lives – from internet technology, to clean drinking water; from live images of Mars, to the flash drives to store them; from energy innovations, to nanoscale discoveries to revolutionize medicine. 1912 20th Century young, impoverished Technikum. city andtransform Haifa, andprovide asource ofincome for the well to 100meters depth–whichwould supply water to thewhole through the power ofdedication. Dynamite was to imported opena Applied skillswere supply butconstruction inshort continued Jewish skilledlabor Dreamers in honorofthefestive cornerstone laying ceremony. Ottoman Empire thelocal Jewish community turnedout On April11,1912,undertheauspices oftheoccupying the cornerstone ofthenew Technikum was finally laid. In theyear oftheTitanic,anda rare, total solareclipse, Good language teaching tongue ofthenew Technikum: Hebrew orGerman? its first andmostcritical test inanemotional debate aboutthe to blendEuropean form withEastern elements. play Einstein cello–was withAlbert inastringquartet soughtout of highereducation intheMiddleEast.Baerwald –whousedto Alexander Baerwald came withthefirst ever designs for abuilding The Architect dream fordreama Technikum “the questionoffounding“the aJewish university.” By theFifthZionist Congress in1901,thepressure was on to address all madepossible by appliedscience, engineeringandtechnology.” electrical train… acityofmagnificent homesandpublicinstitutions Theodor Herzl envisioned Haifa as“a great park… withanoverhead 1901 gave way to insultasHebrew faced The Zionist WWI would decide the outcome of the ‘Battle of the Languages’ in Haifa. With Germany’s defeat, the powerful German influence on the new Technion also waned. Pictured right, occupied Technion building.

1923 Albert Einstein who heard of the postwar financial straits of the nascent Technion came to Haifa to signal his support. He visited workshops and planted a now- famous first palm tree in front of the new building. He returned to Germany to chair the world’s first Technion Society.

1924 Doors open as the Technion enrolled its first students. The official opening ceremony took place in 1925. Its first class had 17 students (including one woman), who majored in civil engineering and architecture. It immediately became a center of skills for the Jewish people in the Holy Land.

Technion gets a steam engine as energy issues were already paramount in pre-state Israel. Technion expertise was sought by citizens of the new city of Tel Aviv to provide electricity. Technion became the power behind new roads and infrastructure connecting scattered populations.

It’s all or nothing as the Technion began absorbing 1930s large numbers of engineers and scholars fleeing the rising anti- semitism in Europe in the 1930s. Technion staff walked the talk of independence by agreeing to work for nothing to ensure the institute’s survival.

WWII While many Technion students volunteered to join forces with the British in their battle against the Third Reich, the Technion building became an active center providing technology for defence and hosting the Jewish underground – notably, the Haganah. 1948 The State of Israel is born The declaration was celebrated by a Technion student body of 680. Shortly afterwards, three powerful new faculties were added: electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and aeronautical engineering.

1950s As the original building in midtown Haifa had become too small, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion selected a 300-acre site on Mount Carmel for a new campus. In 1953, the Institute began its move to Technion City on Mount Carmel. The Technion student body exceeded one thousand.

1960s Reaching out with wisdom, Technion could now open its doors to hundreds of students from the developing countries of Africa and Asia. Scores of Technion faculty members provided technological assistance to countries worldwide, often under the auspices of United Nations agencies.

1967 with the unification of Jerusalem after the Six Day War, Technion skills were in high demand. By now, Technion experts knew that to make a vision hold, you need to fortify it with skill and application. Here, Technion experts help fortify Judaism’s most sacred site: the newly reclaimed Western Wall or Kotel in Jerusalem.

1970s Heal the world The opening of the faculty of medicine in 1969 meant that Technion became home to one of the few medical schools worldwide to be affiliated with an institute of technology. The embryonic power of Technion’s future impact on world medical technology, biotechnology and life sciences could already be felt.

1980s The digital revolution From the birth of fiber-optics and the development of optoelectronics, Technion graduates were seen to be at the local forefront of technological innovation. Technion’s Faculties of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering – ranked among the world’s best – would lead the way in the high-tech revolution. Incoming brainpower after the collapse of 1990s the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the student population rose dramatically from 9,000 to 10,500. Technion established technological incubator companies and structures to ensure that the talent of incoming scientists could be put to use.

Students in Space in 1998, Technion’s Asher Space Research Institute (ASRI) successfully launched the “Gurwin TechSat II” microsatellite, making Technion one of five universities worldwide with a student program that designs, builds, and launches its own satellite.

Meta Faculties Pioneering multidisciplinary science, Technion was first to establish a new paradigm of education – through the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), the Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP) and the Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering. Pictured: Nano Bible - the world’s smallest bible.

2012 Cornerstone Centennial Technion is home to three Nobel Laureates (l-r): Prof. Dan Shechtman (Chemistry 2011), Prof. Avram Hershko and Prof. Aaron Ciechanover (Chemistry 2004).

With its Ivy League partner Cornell University, Technion is to bring its penchant for manifesting vision to the world stage, with the foundation of the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute (TCII) in New York City. From Generation to Generation A tribute to those who have led the institute throughout the decades, from the struggle of its foundation, through its expansion and vision.

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Arthur Blok, Eng. Max Hecker Shmuel Pewsner Prof. Aharon Prof. Joseph Breuer Principal Tcherniavsky

’31-’50 ’51-’65 ’65-’73 ’73-’82 ’82-’86

Dr Shlomo Lt. Gen. (res.) Alexander Maj. Gen. (res.) Prof. Josef Singer Kaplansky Yaakov Dori Goldberg Amos Horev

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Dr Max Reis Prof. Zehev Maj. Gen. (res.) Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig Prof. Peretz Lavie Tadmor Amos Lapidot Honorary Degrees & Awards PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 73

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE David J. Azrieli, 1985 Dr George H. Heilmeier, 1997 Joseph Tanenbaum, 2007 IN TECHNOLOGY Martin Kellner, 1985 Etia Meilichson, 1997 Angelica Berrie, 2008 Dr William Fondiller, 1949 Shimon Peres MK, 1985 Dr Felix Zandman, 1997 Stanley Chais, 2008 Dr Shlomo Kaplansky, 1950 Michael Schor, 1985 Frederick R. Adler, 1998 Thomas L. Friedman, 2008 Prof. Theodore Von Karman, 1951 Moshe Arens MK, 1986 Ted Arison, 1998 Avinoam Naor (Aharonovich), 2008 P. F. Danel, 1952 Sidney Corob, 1986 Justice Aharon Barak, 1998 Jonathan Sohnis, 2008 Sir Ben Lockspeiser, 1952 Norman Seiden, 1986 Dr Christian Hodler, 1998 Joseph Ackerman, 2009 Dr Walter C. Lowdermilk, 1952 Eugene Stearns, 1986 Hershel Rich, 1998 Zahava Bar-Nir, 2009 Dr L. A. Richards, 1952 Joan Goldberg Arbuse, 1987 Arthur Gilbert, 1999 Reinhard Frank, 2009 Dr Chaim Weizmann, 1952 President Chaim Herzog, 1987 William Lester, 1999 Dani Karavan, 2009 Sir Patrick Abercrombie, 1953 Israel Libertovsky, 1987 Robert Neter, 1999 Dr Stephen A. Laser, 2009 Dr Albert Einstein, 1953 Arie Carasso, 1988 Dan Propper, 1999 David Polak, 2009 R. J. Forbes, 1953 Ludwig Jesselson, 1988 Leon Y. Recanati, 1999 Dr Yossi Vardi, 2009 Dr J. Franck, 1953 Louis B. Rogow, 1988 Arnold Recht, 1999 Elie Alalouf, 2010 George Sarton, 1953 Prof. Emeritus Rachel Shalon, 1988 Ben Sosewitz, 1999 Stephen Grand, 2010 Prof. Karl Taylor Compton, 1954 Yekutiel Federmann, 1989 Dr Irwin M. Jacobs, 2000 Michael Heller,2010 Prof. E. D. Bergman, 1955 Joseph Gruss, 1989 Moshe Keret, 2000 Galia Maor, 2010 J. W. Wunsch, 1955 Homer Harvey, 1989 Prof. Benno Müller-Hill, 2000 Dr Hyman Mitchner, 2010 Dr F. Julius Fohs, 1957 Harry Oppenheimer, 1989 Dr Johannes Rau, 2000 Gen (Res) Amram Mitzna, 2010 Dr Emanuel Goldberg, 1957 Maximilian Schlomiuk, 1989 Barrie Rose, 2000 Ruth Leventhal Nathanson, 2010 M. Novomeysky, 1957 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 1989 Harry J. Stern, 2000 Prof. Alain Aspect, 2011 Gerard Swope, 1957 Laurence A. Tisch, 1989 Zvi Zilker, 2000 Edith Cresson, 2011 Abraham Tulin, 1957 Neri J. Bloomfield, 1990 Marshall Butler, 2001 Dr Moshe Epstein, 2011 Simha Blass, 1958 Edward R. Goldberg, 1990 Theodore H. Krengel, 2001 Alan Forman, 2011 Haim Slavin, 1958 Eli Hurwitz, 1990 Dr Dan Maydan, 2001 Mark Gelfand, 2011 Robert Lirmit, 1960 Yitzhak Rabin MK, 1990 Peter Munk, 2001 Prof. Solomon W. Golomb, 2011 Dr Philip Sporn, 1960 Walter H. Annenberg, 1991 Irving A. Shepard, 2001 D. Dan Kahn, 2011 David Rose, 1961 Miriam Benjamin, 1991 Yehuda Zisapel, 2001 Prof. Thomas Kailath, 2011 J. R. Sensibar, 1963 Prof. Malcolm Chaikin, 1991 Zohar Zisapel, 2001 Yaacov Kotlicki, 2011 Edward E. Rosen, 1966 Max Dresher, 1991 Frances Brody, 2002 Eitan Wertheimer , 2011 Gen. Yaakov Dori, 1967 Max M. Fisher, 1991 Raya Gensler, 2002 Manes Pratt, 1968 Benno Gitter, 1991 Sidney Konigsberg, 2002 Al Schwimmer, 1968 Gustave Leven, 1991 Alexandre Mallat, 2002 DOCTOR OF SCIENCE Harry F. Fischbach, 1971 Erik Blumenfeld, 1992 Avraham B. Shochat, 2002 Dr Niels Bohr, 1958 Julius Silver, 1971 Sydney C. Cooper, 1992 Ing. Paul S. Arieli (Goldschmidt), 2003 Dr Caroll V. Newsom, 1958 Aharon Weiner, 1971 François Leotard, 1992 Israel Feldman, 2003 Dr F. Houphouet-Biogny, 1962 Arthur Blok, 1972 George P. Shultz, 1992 Ing. Isaac (Eddie) Streifler-Shavit, 2003 Dr Harold C. Urey, 1962 Alexander Goldberg, 1975 Sam B. Topf, 1992 Stanley Zielony, 2003 Dr I. I. Rabi, 1963 David Laskov, 1975 Stef Wertheimer, 1992 Dr Zeev Bonen, 2004 Dr A. Biram, 1965 Bern Dibner, 1976 Louis Benjamin, 1993 Joseph Gurwin, 2004 Dr Yuval Ne’eman, 1966 Uzia Galil, 1977 Israel Pollack, 1993 Lawrence S. Jackier, 2004 Dr Selman A. Waksman, 1966 Bernard M. Bloomfield, 1978 Elizabeth Corob, 1993 Philip E. Klein, 2004 Dr Robert B. Woodward, 1966 Maurice M. Rosen, 1978 Max Shein, 1993 Benny Landa, 2004 Lord Rothschild, 1968 Prof. Morris Cohen, 1979 Ben Winters, 1993 Dr Bernard Sherman, 2004 Dr Sydney Goldstein, 1969 Col. Jehiel R. Elyachar, 1979 Dr Joseph N. Epel, 1994 Gil Shwed, 2004 Dr Eugene Paul Wigner, 1971 Bruce Rappaport, 1979 Emmanuel Gill, 1994 Norman Belmonte, 2005 Dr M. Schiffer, 1972 Dr Nicholas J. Hoff, 1980 Teddy Kollek, 1994 Edith Fischer, 2005 Dr J. Wolfowitz, 1972 Justice Moshe Landau, 1980 Dr A. I. (Ed) Mlavsky, 1994 Hubert Leven, 2005 Dr George B. Dantzig, 1973 Michael Sobol, 1980 Leonard H. Sherman, 1994 Alfred E. Mann, 2005 Dr Herman F. Mark, 1975 Jacob W. Ullmann, 1980 Dr Dov Frohman, 1995 Rachel Pollak, 2005 Dr Laurence R. Klein, 1982 Isin Ivanier, 1981 Dov Lautman, 1995 Prof. Elie Wiesel, 2005 Prof. Frank A. Cotton, 1983 Dr Avraham Suhami, 1981 Sanford Kaplan, 1995 Gen. (Res.) Avihu Ben-Nun, 2006 Prof. Daniel Drucker, 1983 Dr Duncan Davies, 1982 Dr J. Fraser Mustard, 1995 Evelyn Berger, 2006 Prof. Beno Eckmann, 1983 Samuel Neaman, 1982 Lord Leonard Wolfson, 1995 Shlomo Nehama, 2006 Prof. Paul Erdos, 1983 Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, 1982 Prof. Amnon Pazy, 2006 Prof. Alfred Kastler, 1983 Gen. Dan Tolkowsky, 1982 HONORARY DOCTOR Lois Peltz, 2006 Prof. Ephraim Katzir, 1983 Michael Kennedy Leigh, 1983 Lester Crown, 1996 Stanley Shirvan, 2006 Prof. Herman Chernoff, 1984 Henry Taub, 1983 Gen. (Res.) David Ivry, 1996 Scott Black, 2007 Prof. Gilbert F. Froment, 1984 Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev, 1984 Ramie Silbert, 1996 Lucien Bronicki, 2007 Prof. Eli Sternberg, 1984 Frank R. Lautenberg, 1984 Prof.Heinrich Peter Klaus Ursprung,1996 Yehudit Bronicki, 2007 Prof. Robert Hofstadter, 1985 Eric Lidow, 1984 Lewis Weston, 1996 Robert A. Davidow, 2007 Prof. Samuel Karlin, 1985 Joseph Szydlowski, 1984 Winston S. Churchill, 1997 Lorry I. Lokey, 2007 Prof. Ascher H. Shapiro, 1985 Efraim R. Arazi, 1985 Dr Lillian Chutick, 1997 Seymour Schulich, 2007 Prof. Anatole de Abragam, 1986 Honorary Degrees & Awards

Dr Alan Hoffman, 1986 Dr Henry Samueli, 2005 Rose Herrmann, 1978 Sydney Cooper, 1988 Prof. Simon Ostrach, 1986 Prof. Sir Michael V. Berry, 2006 Max Shein, 1978 Louis Harris, 1988 Dr Arno A. Penzias, 1986 Prof. Graham C. Goodwin, 2006 Moshe Bernard Gitter, 1979 Abba Kramer, 1988 Prof. Louis D. Smullin, 1986 Prof. Thomas L. Magnanti, 2007 Josef Gruenblat, 1979 Dr Zalman M. Shapiro, 1988 Dr Jacob M. Geist, 1987 Prof. Nam Pyo Suh, 2007 Louis L. Lockshin, 1979 Irving A. Shepard, 1988 Prof. Jacob Willem Cohen, 1988 Prof. Chi-Huey Wong, 2007 Norman Seiden, 1979 Ramie Silbert, 1988 Prof. Alberto P. Calderon, 1989 Prof. Israel Gohberg, 2008 L. Shirley Tark, 1979 Chaim M. Gringlas, 1989 Prof. Richard M. Karp, 1989 Architect Daniel Libeskind,2008 Anatol Josepho, 1980 Shmuel Kantor, 1989 Prof. Sir Aaron Klug, F.R.S., 1989 Dr Igor Dawid, 2009 Pearl Milch, 1980 Andre Molleson, 1989 Prof. Werner Stumm, 1989 Prof. Jean Marie Lehn, 2009 Louis Susman, 1980 Monte Monaster, 1989 Prof. Victor F. Weisskopf, 1989 Prof. Leonard Kleinrock, 2010 Henry Taub, 1980 Albert Newman, 1989 Prof. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 1989 Prof. Anders Lindquist, 2010 Solm Yach, 1980 Harry Sheres, 1989 Prof. Jack D. Dunitz, 1990 Prof. Lev Pitaevskii, 2010 Morley Blankstein, 1981 Harold M. Stone, 1989 Prof. Felix J. Weinberg, 1990 Eedis Cooperband, 1981 Ing. Isaac (Eddie) Streifler Shavit, 1989 Prof. Bruno Zevi, 1990 DOCTOR OF Ing. Zvi Langer, 1981 Sidney Wolberg, 1989 Prof. Jose Goldemberg, 1991 ARCHITECTURE Justice Roy Matas, 1981 Yosef Ami, 1990 Prof. Michel Jouvet, 1991 David Ben Gurion, 1962 Joan Goldberg Arbuse, 1982 Albert Ben-David, 1990 Prof. Marcus Karel, 1991 Stephen Berger, 1982 Irving Greenberg, 1990 Prof. Rolf W. Landauer, 1991 HONORARY ENGINEER Ernest Nathan, 1982 Emanuel Shachar, 1990 Prof. Seymour Rabinowitz, 1991 Joseph W. Wunsch, 1946 Seniel Ostrow, 1982 Ben Sosewitz, 1990 Prof. Yakir Aharonov, 1992 Alexander Konoff, 1949 Uriel Shalon, 1982 Helen Asher, 1991 Prof. David Bohm, 1992 Elias Fife, 1955 Beatrice Sherman, 1982 Franklin G. Bishop, 1991 Prof. Angelo Miele, 1992 Louis Stein, 1982 Helene Blanc, 1991 Dr Shmuel Winograd, 1992 HONORARY FELLOW Jack Chisvin, 1983 Melvin Dubin, 1991 Prof. R. Byron Bird, 1993 Col. Jehiel R. Elyachar, 1953 Reginald Coleman-Cohen, 1983 Joseph K. Even, 1991 Prof. Peter Haasen, 1993 Arthur Blok, 1954 Anna Tulin Elyachar, 1983 Benjamin Fohrman, 1991 Prof. Harold A. Scheraga, 1993 Max Hecker, 1954 Louis Bernard Magil, 1983 Benjamin Free, 1991 Prof. Israel Dostrovsky, 1994 Sir Louis Sterling, 1956 Mark Moshevicz, 1983 Dr Albert A. Kaufman, 1991 Prof. Mildred S. Dresselhaus, 1994 Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1956 Louis Rogow, 1983 Reuben Kunin, 1991 Prof. Richard Goldstein, 1994 Samuel Fryer, 1959 Alf Schwarcbaum, 1983 Adelaide Kennedy Leigh, 1991 Dr Donna Shalala, 1994 S. J. Birn, 1965 Sam Topf, 1983 William Lester, 1991 Prof. Joan S. Lyttle Birman, 1995 Dr Jacob Isler, 1970 Frances Cohen, 1984 Edmundo Safdie, 1991 Prof. Bernard Budiansky, 1995 Ing. Aharon Goldstein, 1971 Nathan Kirsch, 1984 Irving Wenger, 1991 Prof. Karl Ludwig Kompa, 1995 Leo M. Harvey, 1972 Theodore Krengel, 1984 Ben Winters, 1991 Maurice M. Rosen, 1972 Joan Callner Miller, 1984 Itzhak Bar-Nov, 1992 HONORARY DOCTOR Barnett Shine, 1972 Judge Leonard Rabinowitz, 1984 Frances Brody, 1992 OF SCIENCE Jacob W. Ullmann, 1972 Stefanie Sonia Schreier, 1984 Israel Feldman, 1992 Prof. Roald Hoffmann, 1996 Alexander Whyte, 1972 David Silbert, 1984 Nathan Max Goldman, 1992 Prof. Robert E. Lucas, Jr., 1996 Abel Wolman, 1972 Irma Wigdor, 1984 Richard Aaron Koplow, 1992 Prof. Robert S. Langer, 1997 Jacobs K. Javits, 1973 Shlomo Zabledowitz, 1984 Yeshayahu Landau, 1992 Prof. Barry M. Trost, 1997 Ludwig Jesselson, 1973 Max Dresher, 1985 Albert Nerken, 1992 Prof. Haim Brezis, 1998 Eliyahu Sacharov, 1973 Ruben Finkelstein, 1985 Hershel Rich, 1992 Prof. Rudolph A. Marcus, 1998 Victor Tabah, 1973 Salomon Gottesfeld, 1985 Dorothy Schussheim, 1992 Dr Joel Birnbaum, 1999 Samuel M. Bernstein, 1975 Joseph H. Jackier, 1985 Roma Broida Wittcoff, 1992 Prof. Barry Simon, 1999 Horace W. Goldsmith, 1975 Martin Jelin, 1985 Samuel Zabner, 1992 Prof. Arnold L. Demain, 2000 Alexander Hassan, 1975 Ing. Gen. Robert Munnich, 1985 Ela Rousso de Blasbalg, 1993 Prof. Helmut Schwarz, 2000 Michael Kennedy Leigh, 1975 Sarah Baruchin, 1986 Melvyn H. Bloom, 1993 Dr Andrew J. Viterbi, 2000 Gen. Dan Tolkowsky, 1975 Louis Benjamin, 1986 Paul Chanin, 1993 Dr Richard A. Lerner, 2001 Arie Carasso, 1976 Miriam Benjamin, 1986 Zvi Dvoresky, 1993 Dr Lester C. Thurow, 2001 Avraham Lev, 1976 Maurice Commanday, 1986 Jerry Friedman, 1993 Dr Carl de Boor, 2002 Leon Lidow, 1976 Salman Grand, 1986 Dr Stephen Shapiro, 1993 Dr Solomon H. Snyder, 2002 Joseph Riesman, 1976 Eugene N. Riesman, 1986 Gerald Silbert, 1993 Prof. Alexandre Joel Chorin, 2003 Eugene Stearns, 1976 Henri Strosberg, 1986 Peter Simon, 1993 Dr Santiago Calatrava, 2004 Nathan Goldberg, 1977 Dr Joseph N. Epel, 1987 Harry Stern, 1993 Prof. Azriel Rosenfeld, 2004 Lawrence Harvey, 1977 Burt I. Harris, 1987 Clément Vaturi, 1993 Prof. Richard E. Smalley, 2004 Nate Sherman, 1977 Leonard H. Sherman, 1987 Marshall Butler, 1994 Dr Bernard Gordon, 2005 Isaac Taylor, 1977 Lewis M. Weston, 1987 Raya Gensler, 1994 Prof. Joshua Jortner, 2005 Yekutiel Federmann, 1978 Carl Alpert, 1988 Dipl. Ing. Helmut Gutmann, 1994 Prof. James R. Rice, 2005 Aaron Gutwirth, 1978 Alexander Coler, 1988 Tess Heffner, 1994 Honorary Degrees & Awards PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 75

Dr Christian Hodler, 1994 Prof. Burkhart Müller, 2001 Bennett Rechler, 2009 Prof. Hillel Furstenberg, 1993 Daniel Karp, 1994 David Polak, 2001 Hannah Rechler Rabinowitz, 2009 Prof. Eric Kandel, 1993 Trudy Louis, 1994 Jonathan Sohnis, 2001 Chaim Yaron, 2009 Prof. Richard Zare, 1993 Arnold Recht, 1994 Stanley Chais, 2002 Giora Ackerstein, 2010 Prof. Vladimir I. Arnold, 1994 Yona Uspiz, 1994 Prof. Dr Ing. Ulrich Draugelates, 2002 Michael Fuerst, 2010 Prof. Robert A. Weinberg, 1994 Dr Kenneth Alberman, 1995 Michael Heller, 2002 Aviva Goldberg, 2010 Dr John Cahn, 1995 Alfred Bar, 1995 Frank G. Meyer, 2002 Ben-Ami Gov, 2010 Dr Donald Knuth, 1995 Moshe Bar-Ilan, 1995 Morris Rochlin, 2002 Michael Klein, 2010 Prof. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, 1996 Louis Edelstein, 1995 Eli Welt, 2002 Charles Levin, 2010 Prof. C. Walton Lillehei, 1996 Alex J. Etkin, 1995 Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yitzhak Ben Dov, 2003 Howard Rosenbloom, 2010 Prof. Roger D. Kornberg, 1997 Prof. Asger Lindegaard-Andersen, 1995 Hans Cohn, 2003 Joel Rothman, 2010 Prof. Richard Karp, 1998 Richard Swig, 1995 Dr Stephen A. Laser, 2003 Ivan Stern, 2010 Prof. Barry Sharpless, 1998 Joseph Gurwin, 1996 Dr Hyman Mitchner, 2003 Fausta Finzi Carli, 2011 Prof. Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 1999 William Marcus, 1996 Col. Yitzhak Turgeman, 2003 Oscar Davis, 2011 Prof. Robert G. Gallager, 1999 Yehezkel Nussbaum, 1996 Zahava Bar-Nir, 2004 Dr Harry Handelsman, 2011 Prof. Harry B. Gray, 2000 Norton Sherman, 1996 Dahlia Blech, 2004 Sidney Lejfer, 2011 Prof. David J. Gross, 2000 Harry J. Stern, 1996 David Brecher, 2004 Ed Satell, 2011 Prof. James E. Peebles, 2001 Mary Werksman, 1996 Benjamin Carasso, 2004 Rafael Sirkis, 2011 Prof. Bert Vogelstein, 2001 Dan Wind, 1996 Aaron Etra, 2004 Stanley Sussman, 2011 Prof. Peter B. Dervan, 2002 Norman Belmonte, 1997 Reinhard Frank, 2004 Albert Sweet, 2011 Prof. Ada E. Yonath, 2002 Robert Davidow, 1997 Herbert W. Pollack, 2004 Prof. Robert Langer, 2003 Rudolph Forchheimer, 1997 Nina Sabban, 2004 Dr Arthur Ashkin, 2004 Charles Housen, 1997 Jeannette Dankner, 2005 HARVEY PRIZE Prof. Wayne A. Hendrickson, 2004 Ivoncy Ioschpe, 1997 Alan Forman, 2005 Prof. Willem J. Kolf, 1972 Prof. Wolfgang P. Baumeister, 2005 Sidney Konigsberg, 1997 Gary Goldberg, 2005 Prof. Claude E. Shannon, 1972 Prof. Edward Witten, 2005 Alexandre Mallat, 1997 Shmuel Rotem, 2005 Sir Alan Howard Cottrell, 1974 Prof. Charles L. Bennett, 2006 Norbert M. Rand, 1997 Joan Seidel, 2005 Prof. Gershom Scholem, 1974 Prof. Ronald M. Evans, 2006 Gyora Rubinstein, 1997 Esther Smidof, 2005 Prof. George Klein, 1975 Prof. Michael Graetzel, 2007 William Shamban, 1997 Dan Vilenski, 2005 Prof. Edward Teller, 1975 Prof. Stephen E. Harris, 2007 Dov Tirosh, 1997 William Wiener, 2005 Prof. Saul Lieberman, 1976 Dr Charles H. Bennett, 2008 K. B. Weissman, 1997 Dr Isaac Dvoretzky, 2006 Prof. Herman F. Mark, 1976 Prof. David Eisenberg, 2008 Joseph Freed, 1998 Coleman Kenneth Greidinger, 2006 Prof. Seymour Benzer, 1977 Prof. Sir David Baulcombe, 2009 Tamara Handelsman, 1998 Ing. Shaul Ivtsan, 2006 Prof. Freeman John Dyson, 1977 Prof. Shuji Nakamura, 2009 Philip E. Klein, 1998 D. Dan Kahn, 2006 Prof. Bernard Lewis, 1978 Prof. Michael Karin, 2010 Samuel Geltman, 1998 Yaacov Kotlicki, 2006 Prof. Isaak Wahl, 1978 Prof. Alexander M. Polyakov, 2010 Dr Arthur Wein, 1998 Prof. Jacques Lewiner, 2006 Prof. Shlomo Dov Goitein, 1980 Prof. Sir Richard Friend, 2011 Elisha Yanay, 1998 Hal Marcus, 2006 Prof. Michael Rabin, 1980 Prof. Judea Pearl, 2011 Scott Black, 1999 Jack Skodnek, 2006 Prof. Ephraim Racker, 1980 Milford Bohm, 1999 Dr Coleman Caplovitz, 2007 Sir James Lighthill, 1981 Simcha Cohen-Stern, 1999 Macabi Carasso, 2007 Prof. Hans W. Kosterlitz, 1981 TECHNION MEDAL Jerome Drexler, 1999 Yoel Carasso, 2007 Prof. Jacob Polotsky, 1982 Justice Moshe Landau, 1996 Dorothy Kellner, 1999 Irwin L. Gross, 2007 Prof. Alvin Weinberg, 1982 Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev, 1996 Stanley Shirvan, 1999 Ruth Leventhal Nathanson, 2007 Prof. Robert Aumann, 1983 Uzia Galil, 1997 Haim Stoessel, 1999 Janey Sweet, 2007 Prof. Philip Leder, 1983 Samuel Neaman, 1997 Benjamin B. Torchinsky, 1999 Reuven Agassi, 2008 Prof. Franz Rosenthal, 1984 Bruce Rappaport, 1998 Jack Bellock, 2000 Gen. (Res.) Shlomo Burstein-Inbar, 2008 Dr Peter Sorokin, 1984 Haim Rubin, 1998 Michael Frieze, 2000 J. Steven Emerson, 2008 Prof. George B. Dantzig, 1985 Henry Taub, 1998 Doreen Green, 2000 Mark Gelfand, 2008 Prof. Barnett Rosenberg, 1985 Norman Seiden, 2001 Marguerite Greenberg, 2000 Leon Kempler OAM, 2008 Prof. Paul C. Lauterbur, 1986 Martin Kellner, 2005 Lawrence Jackier, 2000 Cindy Sipkin, 2008 Prof. Benjamin Mazar, 1986 Leonard Sherman, 2005 Lois Peltz, 2000 Mariane Szego, 2008 Prof. Sydney Brenner, 1987 Ben Sosewitz, 2008 Miriam Pushkar, 2000 Sandor Szego, 2008 Prof. Pierre Chambon, 1987 Lewis Weston, 2008 Joseph Tanenbaum, 2000 Victor Asser, 2009 Prof. Pierre-Gilles de-Gennes, 1988 Evelyn Berger, 2001 Ilse Blumenfeld, 2009 Dr Benoit B. Mandelbrot, 1989 David Dibner, 2001 André Deloro, 2009 Dr Robert H. Dennard, 1990 Edith Fischer, 2001 Carol B. Epstein, 2009 Prof. Jacques-Louis Lions, 1991 David Friedman, 2001 Sandy Hittman, 2009 Prof. Bert Sakmann, 1991 Ruth Hoenich, 2001 Scott Leemaster, 2009 Mikhail Gorbachev, 1992 Prof. Eliahu I. Jury, 2001 Tzvi Neta, 2009 Prof. Amnon Yariv, 1992 * asterisk indicates Board of Governors Technion Council member

HONORARY CHAIR Prof. David Simchi-Levi, USA Doreen Green, Canada Leon Recanati, Israel Uzia Galil, Israel* Prof. Hermona Soreq, Israel Daniel Gutenberg, Switzerland Bennett Rechler, USA Prof. Peter J. U. Stang, USA Gen. (Res.) Shalom Hagai, Israel Arnold Recht, Canada CHAIR Gad Haker, Israel Dr Max W. Reis, Israel Lawrence Jackier, USA* MEMBERS Louis N. Harris, UK Shlomo Reisman, Israel Piero Abbina, Italy Michael Heller, UK Prof. Dr Gerd-Volker DEPUTY CHAIRS Abraham Abekasis, Israel Morven Heller, UK Roeschenthaler, Germany Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev, Israel* Joseph Ackerman, Israel Sandi Hittman, USA Howard Rosenbloom, USA Norman Seiden, USA Reuven Agassi, Israel Gen. (Res.) Itzhak Hoffi, Israel Shmuel Rotem, Israel* Ruth Alon, Israel* Maj. Gen.(Res.) Shlomo Joel S. Rothman, USA VICE CHAIR Yoram Alster, Israel* (Burstein) Inbar, Israel* Henri Rothschild, Canada Martin Kellner, USA Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig, Israel Gen. (Res.) David Ivry, Israel Haim Rousso, Israel Ben Sosewitz, USA Moshe Arens, Israel Ing. Shaul Ivtsan, Israel* Kobi Rozengarten, Israel Avie Arenson, Israel Dr Irwin Jacobs, USA Nina Sabban, USA EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Judge Hanoch Ariel, Israel Gershon Kaddar, Israel Edmundo Safdie, Brazil Maurice Ross Victor Asser, Greece Dr Shlomo Kalish, Israel Prof. Dr Thomas Scheper, Germany Eli Ayalon, Israel Miri Katz, Israel Shoshana Schreiber, Israel PRESIDENT Alain Ayoun, France Theodore Kenny, Israel Yigal Schreiber, Israel Prof. Peretz Lavie* David J. Azrieli, C.M., C.Q., Canada Avi Kerbs, Israel Arie Scope, Israel Dr Naomi Azrieli, Canada Moshe Keret, Israel Dr Yoram Sebba, Israel* EXECUTIVE SENIOR Alfred Bar, Switzerland Dr Joachim Klein, Germany Arnold Seidel, USA VICE PRESIDENT Zahava Bar Nir, USA Yaacov Kotlicki, Israel Joan Seidel, USA Prof. Paul Feigin* Sarah Baruchin, Israel Kobi Kurtz, Netherlands Yair Shamir, Israel Norman Belmonte, USA Benny Landa, Israel Maurice Shashoua, Brazil EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Danny Benardout, Greece Yeshayahu Landau, Israel Raphi Shavit, Israel FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Ing. Albert Ben-David, Israel Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Lapidot, Israel Irving A. Shepard, USA Prof. Moshe Sidi Ing. Yitzhak Ben-Dov, Israel* Dr Stephen Laser, USA Leonard H. Sherman, USA Gen. (Res.) Avihu Ben-Nun, Israel Eliaz Lavi, Israel Stanley Shirvan, USA EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH Matilda Beracha, Greece Ron Lazarovits, Australia Abraham Shochat, Israel Prof. Oded Shmueli Evelyn Berger, USA Sidney Lejfer, USA Rafael Sirkis, Israel Scott Black, USA Isaac-Sakis Leon, Greece Jonathan Sohnis, USA EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Harry Bloomfield, Canada Charles Levin, USA Simcha Stern, Israel & DIRECTOR GENERAL David Brecher, UK Dr Daphna Levy, Israel Justice (Ret.) Tova Strassberg- Dr Avital Stein Lucien Y. Bronicki, Israel Prof. Jacques Lewiner, France Cohen, Israel Shraga Brosh, Israel Moshe Lichtman, Israel Ing. Isaac Eddie Streifler- VICE PRESIDENT FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS Pinchas Barel Buchris, Israel Prof. Anders Lindquist, Sweden Shavit, Israel* & RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT Yoel Carasso, Israel Lorry I. Lokey, USA Stanley Sussman, USA Prof. Boaz Golany Joseph Ciechanover, Israel Rene Luks, Switzerland Ing. Sandor Szego, Brazil Elizabeth Corob, UK Dr Yoelle Maarek, Israel Prof. Zehev Tadmor, Israel DEAN OF THE JACOBS Edith Cresson, France Israel Makov, Israel Joseph Tanenbaum, USA GRADUATE SCHOOL Jacob Dagan, Israel Prof. Fadel Mansour, Israel* Gen. (Res.) Dan Tolkowsky, Israel Prof. Hillel Pratt Jeannette Dankner, Israel Dana Maor, Israel Gideon Tolkowsky, Israel Itsik Danzinger, Israel Joshua Maor, Israel Itzhak Turgeman, Israel DEAN OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES Robert Davidow, USA Hal Marcus, USA Oded Tyrah, Israel Prof. Daoud Bshouty Uri Dori, Israel Shlomo Markel, Israel* Dr Yossi Vardi, Israel Michael Dresner, Israel Gurion Meltzer, Israel Dan Vilenski, Israel DEAN OF STUDENTS Dr Alon Dumanis, Israel Giora Meyuhas, Israel Dr Andrew Viterbi, USA Prof. Michal Green Ing. Zvi Dvoresky, Israel Raphael Mishan, USA Dr Kobi Vortman, Israel Dr Shimon Eckhouse, Israel Dr Hyman Mitchner, USA Eyal Waldman, Israel DEAN OF THE DIVISION FOR CONTINUING J. Steven Emerson, USA Jonathan Moller, USA Prof. Dr Peter Weinberger, Austria EDUCATION & EXTERNAL STUDIES Ami Erel, Israel Avinoam Naor, Israel Eitan Wertheimer, Israel Prof. Yehudit Dori Prof. Juri Estrin, Australia Ruth Leventhal Nathanson, USA Stef Wertheimer, Israel Aaron Etra, USA Shlomo Nehama, Israel Lewis M. Weston, USA MINISTER OF TRANSPORT Irwin Field, USA Meir Nissensohn, Israel Avigdor Willenz, Israel MK Israel Katz Sigal First, Israel Dr Eli Opper, Israel Laura Wolfson-Townsley, UK Edith Fischer, USA Dr Edgar Paltzer, Switzerland Ben Wygodny, Canada MAYOR OF HAIFA Alan Forman, USA Daniel Peltz, UK Danny Yamin, Israel* Yona Yahav Gilead Fortuna, Israel Lois Peltz, UK Shlomo Yanai, Israel Gideon Frank, Israel* David Perlmutter, Israel Elisha Yanay, Israel ACADEMIC AND Pearl Gameroff, Canada Prof. Guilherme Ary Plonski, Brazil Chaim Yaron, Israel* SCIENTIFIC MEMBERS Jacques Garih, France David Polak, USA Giora Yaron, Israel Prof. Alain Aspect, France David Gat, Israel Rachel Pollak, Israel Yehuda Zisapel, Israel Prof. Alexandre J. Chorin, USA Yitzhak Gat, Israel Rina Pridor, Israel* Zohar Zisapel, Israel Prof. Shafi Goldwasser, Israel Edward R. Goldberg, USA Dan Propper, Israel Prof. Robert G. Loewy, USA Gary Goldberg, Canada Clifford Rand, Canada Dr Dan Maydan, USA Prof. Solomon W. Golomb, USA Irith Rappaport, Israel Dr Ben-Zion Naveh, Israel Ben Ami Gov, Israel Dr Ruth Ratner, Australia Prof. Eliot Phillipson, Canada Dr Ehoud Graff, Israel Dr Jacob Razon, Israel* Board of Governors PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 77

ALTERNATE MEMBERS Prof. Jerome Drexler, USA REPRESENTATIVES OF GROUPS Serge Bitboul, France Melvin Dubin, USA AND ORGANIZATIONS Paul Burg, USA Dr Isaac Dvoretzky, USA James Deutchman, USA Prof. George Feher, USA JEWISH AGENCY Brent Dibner, USA Israel Feldman, USA Alan Hoffman Moshe Dunie, USA Lawrence Feldman, USA Rita Emerson, USA Eugene Ferkauf, USA ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS Carol Epstein, USA Dr Avi Friedman, Canada AND ARCHITECTS Rod Feldman, USA Michael Frieze, USA Simcha Afek Gill Fishman, USA Dr Jacob E. Goldman, USA Amnon Bartal Ruth Flinkman-Marandy, USA Nathan Goldman, Canada Emanuel Zvi Libin Laura Flug, USA Sofia L. de Grimberg, Argentina David Friedman, USA Gary Gross, USA ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Prof. René Frydman, France Jordan Gruzen, USA AND HUMANITIES Harold Garfinkle, Canada Willard Hackerman, USA Prof. Mordechai Heiblum Stephen Grand, USA Jack Hahn, Canada Dr Frieda Granot, Canada Homer Harvey, USA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Uzi Halevy, USA Dr Michael Helper, Canada Eyal Kaplan Harry Handelsman, USA Dr Christian Hodler, Germany Dr Ilana Maor Tamara Handelsman, USA Charles Housen, USA Robert Hanisee, USA Ivoncy B. Ioschpe, Brazil PROFESSORS Jon Hirschtick, USA Maggie Kaplan, USA Prof. Michael Aviram Phillippe Jacob, France Nathan Kirsh, South Africa Prof. Moshe Eizenberg Jerold Jacover, USA Stephen B. Klein, USA Prof. Baruch Fischer Michael Klein, USA Theodore H. Krengel, USA Prof. Raphael Semiat Scott Leemaster, USA Ing. Zvi Langer, Israel Prof. Dan Zilberstein* Alexander Lidow, USA Alexander Lidow, USA William Marcus, USA Justice Sam Lieberman, Canada ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Prof. Arnold Munnich, France Mitchell J. Marcus, USA Bennett Nathanson, USA Bernard Mars, USA Marvin Ostin, Canada Murray Menkes, Canada SENIOR LECTURERS Eddie Pal, Canada Frank G. Meyer, USA Dr Oren Kurland Herbert Pollack, USA Louis Milgrom, USA David Ronn, USA Jonathan Mitchell, USA TEACHING STAFF UNION Andrea Rush, Canada Robert Munnich, France Liad Levy Eugene B. Shapiro, USA Parviz Nazarian, USA Ing. Shaul Shashoua, Brazil Justice Shoshana Netanyahu, Israel PROFESSORS EMERITI Cindy Sipkin, USA Prof. Dr Ewald Nowotny, Austria Prof. Amos Komornik Lawrence Sipkin, USA Samuel Pisar, France Senator Paul Steinberg, USA Eugene Riesman, Canada FACULTY ASSOCIATION Stefan Sturesson, Sweden Morris Rochlin, USA Prof. Irad Yavneh Stanley Sussman, USA Barrie Rose, Canada Janey Sweet, USA Daniel Rose, USA ORGANIZATION OF PRACTICAL Bernice Tanenbaum, USA Elihu Rose, USA ENGINEERS (HANDESSAIM) Ira Taub, USA Eric Samson, South Africa Naftali Blau James Turken, USA Moshe Sanbar, Israel Charles D. Wellner, USA Dr Zalman M. Shapiro, USA THE M4 ORGANIZATION: THE ACADEMIC Bruce Whizin, USA Paul Shatz, USA EMPLOYEES UNION AT THE TECHNION Roma Wittcoff, USA Sholom Shefferman, USA Moshe Barak Harry Sheres, Canada HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS Norton Sherman, USA UNION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE Norman Belfer, USA Emanuel Shimoni, Israel WORKERS AT TECHNION Jack Bellock, USA Ramie J. Silbert, USA Vardit Friedmann Evelyn Berger, USA Abe Simkin, Canada Paul Bernstein, USA Frances Fohs Sohn, USA ORGANIZATION OF TECHNION PENSIONERS Dr Joel Birnbaum, USA Dr S. Jerome Tamkin, USA Abraham Benmaman Morley Blankstein, Canada Joseph Taub, USA Ela Rousso de Blasbalg, Argentina Benjamin Torchinsky, Canada GRADUATE STUDENTS ORGANIZATION Dr Ilan Blech, USA Lucy Ullmann, USA Moshe Apel Neri Bloomfield, Canada Yona Uspiz, Israel Schachar Raz Robert Brand, USA Francois Wasservogel, France Edgar M. Bronfman, USA Mary Werksman, USA STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Leona Chanin, USA Estelle Yach, South Africa Masha Friedman Jack Chisvin, Canada Ruth Ziegler, USA Assaf Zinger Frances Cohen, Canada Robert Zinn, USA Sidney L. Cohen, Canada Sydney C. Cooper, Canada Richard Davison, USA Facts & Figures

N U M B E R O F S T U D E N T S 2 0 1 1 / 2 0 1 2

1838 Bachelor’s 9,529 1469 Master’s 2,384

1483 Doctorate 943 Total 12,856

1268 1164 1149

806

545 411 405 371 367 291 268 416 226 211 62 70 10 26

Biology *** Aerospace Chemistry Civil and Physics General Eng. Architecture Mathematics Medicine* General Option Biomedical Eng.Biotechnology Chemical Eng. Electrical IndustrialEng. Eng. Materials Eng. Mechanical Eng. Engineering & Town Planning & Food Eng. Computer Science of Eng. Multidisciplinary (M.Eng.) Environmental Eng. & Science & Management**International School Education in Technology Graduate Programs

* including 559 MD 4th-6th year students, 103 of whom are on the Technion American Medical School Program ** including 117 MBA students *** including graduate students in Autonomous Systems & Robotics; Biotechnology; Design & Manufacturing Engineering; Energy; Polymer Engineering; Nanoscience & Nanotechnology; and Systems Engineering

Degrees Awarded 2012 Degrees Awarded (Graduates) Total Degrees Awarded (1924-2012)

MD 2011 2012 PhD 115 185 Bachelor’s 1,789 1,729 BA/BSc 71,451 MD 115 115 MD 2,101 Master’s 741 699 Master’s 17,880 PhD 189 185 PhD 4,389 MSc 699 BSc 1,729 TOTAL 2,834 2,728 TOTAL 95,821

T O T A L S T U D E N T P O P U L A T I O N

TOTAL: 2,728 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Bachelor’s 8,521 9,278 9,401 9,564 9,529 Master’s 2,362 2,290 2,301 2,351 2,384 Doctorate 881 877 963 934 943

Total 12,314 12,445 12,665 12,849 12,856

All data correct to May 20, 2012 Fiscal Overview PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 79

O P E R A T I N G B U D G E T S P O N S O R E D R E S E A R C H F R O M October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2012 EXTERNAL SOURCES (Millions of $US) Thousands INCOME of NIS % Government Allocation 829,945 69.2 Self Income 169,800 14.2 86.9 Tuition Fees 109,000 9.1 Technion Societies 46,000 3.8 64.4 65.2 Deficit 44,847 3.7 61.7 50.6 Total Income 1,199,592 100.00 44.5 40.6 EXPENDITURE 34.7 Staff Emoluments 658,875 54.9 Pension Payments 211,985 17.7 Operating Expenses 137,318 11.4 Maintenance 97,936 8.2 Student Aid 93,478 7.8 Total Expenditure 1,199,592 100.00 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

T O T A L I N C O M E F R O M F A S T F A C T S 2 0 1 1 / 1 2 TECHNION SOCIETIES

100 89.3 86.8 FOUNDED: 1912 TECHNICAL & 82.6 ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF: 1,170 80 71 74 STUDENT POPULATION: 12,856 RESEARCH CENTERS: 52 59.9 57.6 ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS: 18 60 53.9 BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS: 90 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS: 50 2 40 BUILT-UP AREA: 464,317m GRADUATE PROGRAMS: 80

MILLIONS OF $US DORMITORY BEDS: 4,442 20 DEGREES AWARDED: 95,821 FACULTY: 616 0 2003/4 2004/5 2005/6 2006/7 2007/8 2008/9 2009/10 2010/11

D E V E L O P M E N T E X P E N D I T U R E D E V E L O P M E N T E X P E N D I T U R E 65.7 October 1, 2010 - September 30, 2011 57.3

48.7 Thousands Thousands 36.5 of $US % NIS* 41.7 40 Buildings, Renovations & Infrastructure 18,569 46.4 70,561 32.1 Multidisciplinary Research Centers 12,516 31.2 46,433 Laboratories & Equipment 8,978 22.4 32,822

MILLIONS OF $US 16.9 Total 40,063 100.0 149,816 * $US1 = NIS 3.55 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Leadership

Lawrence Jackier Yoram Alster Prof. Peretz Lavie Prof. Paul Feigin Chairman of the Board of Governors Chairman of the Council President Senior Executive Vice President

Prof. Moshe Sidi Prof. Oded Shmueli Dr Avital Stein Prof. Boaz Golany Executive Vice President Exec utive Vice President Executive Vice President Vice President for External Relations for Academic Affairs for Research and Director General and Resource Development

TECHNION DEANS Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Faculty of Physics Deputy Director General Dean of Undergraduate Studies Prof. Alon Hoffman Prof. Noam Soker for Development Prof. Daoud Bshouty and Maintenance Faculty of Civil and Environmental Center for Pre-university Education Abraham Wilf Dean of the Jacobs Engineering Prof. Shimon Gepstein Graduate School Prof. Noah Galil Deputy Director General for Operations Prof. Hillel Pratt ADDITIONAL OFFICERS Zehava Laniado Faculty of Computer Science Deputy Senior Vice President Dean of Division of Continuing Education Prof. Eli Biham Prof. Daniel Rittel Director, Assets and Investments Division and External Studies Yaron Eyal Prof. Yehudit Dori Department of Education Deputy SVP for Academic Development in Technology and Science of the NYCTech Campus Deputy Vice President for Dean of Students Assoc. Prof. Orit Hazzan Prof. Craig Gotsman Information Systems Prof. Michal Green Prof. Gershon Elber Faculty of Electrical Engineering Deputy SVP for International DEANS AND DEPARTMENT HEADS Prof. Adam Shwartz Academic Relations Deputy Vice President for Safety Matters Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Prof. Anat Rafaeli Prof. Yaacov Mamane Prof. Yoram Tambour Department of Humanities and Arts Assistant to SVP for the Consultant to Director General for Faculty of Architecture Prof. Charlotte Schapira Promotion of Teaching Finance and Administrative Matters and Town Planning Prof. Daniel Lewin Elhanan Oppenheimer Prof. Yehuda Kalay Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Deputy Vice President Director, Public Affairs and Resource Faculty of Biology Prof. Aharon Ben-Tal for Research Development Division Prof. Gad Schuster Prof. Yuval Shoham Danny Shapiro Faculty of Materials Engineering Faculty of Biomedical Engineering Prof. Wayne Kaplan Deputy Vice President General Counsel Prof. Dan Adam for Academic Affairs Adv. Dror Goldstein Faculty of Mathematics Prof. Zalman Palmor Faculty of Biotechnology Prof. Jacob Rubinstein Marketing Director and Food Engineering Deputy Director General Gabriel Stern Prof. Ben-Zion Levi Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Matanyahu Englman Prof. Pinhas Bar-Yoseph Wolfson Faculty of Deputy Director General for Chemical Engineering Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Human Resources Prof. Raphael Semiat Prof. Eliezer Shalev Ariel Hazan Faculty PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 81

Leaders in Science ACADEMIC FACULTY 2012 and Technology

LANDAU FELLOWS Regular Faculty * Individuals Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) Nicholas Crawford Faculty of Mathematics Lecturer 18 14 Senior Lecturer 127 116 Amos Yarom Faculty of Physics Associate Professor 230 211 Full Professor 241 240 HOREV FELLOWS Total* 616 581 Carmel Rotschild Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Clinical Track Appointments 241 95 Amir Yehudayoff External Adjuncts 935 224 Faculty of Mathematics

*Including medical faculty

New Faculty Appointments

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING MEDICINE Danny Eytan Adi Rachmiel Yossef Elimelech Yuval Cassuto Imad Abu El-Naaj Lecturer Clinical Senior Lecturer Research Associate Senior Lecturer Clinical Senior Lecturer Aharon Frimerman Michal Rahat ARCHITECTURE AND Yoav Etsion Ricardo Alfici Clinical Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer TOWN PLANNING Senior Lecturer Clinical Assoc. Professor Efrat Eizenberg Doron Garfinkel Alexander Rozin Lecturer INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Avraham Avital Clinical Senior Lecturer Clinical Lecturer AND MANAGEMENT Senior Lecturer Michelle Portman Ella Miron-Spektor Yaniv Gelernter Yael Shachor-Meyouhas Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer Alexander Becker Clinical Lecturer Clinical Lecturer Clinical Lecturer Els Verbakel Hovav Perets Lecturer Teaching Associate Mordechai Grupper Shai Shen-Orr Boaz Bloch Clinical Lecturer Senior Lecturer BIOLOGY MATERIALS ENGINEERING Clinical Lecturer Ayelet Lamm Yaron Amouyal Riad Haddad Gary Sinoff Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer David Blondheim Clinical Senior Lecturer Clinical Senior Lecturer Clinical Senior Lecturer CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS Emilia Hardak Ido Solt Viatcheslav Freger Nicholas Crawford Noam Bor Clinical Lecturer Clinical Senior Lecturer Associate Professor Senior Lecturer Clinical Lecturer Ruth Hershberg Mahmoud Suleiman CHEMISTRY Uri Shapira Daniel Briscoe Senior Lecturer Clinical Senior Lecturer Lilac Amirav Senior Lecturer Clinical Lecturer Senior Lecturer Yuval Kaufman Tamar Tadmor MECHANICAL Shemy Carasso Clinical Lecturer Clinical Lecturer Galia Maayan ENGINEERING Clinical Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer Moran Bercovici Adi Klein-Kremer Naveh Tov Senior Lecturer Dori Derdikman Clinical Lecturer Clinical Lecturer CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL Senior Lecturer ENGINEERING Dan Mordehai Anatoly Kreinin Simon Vulfsons Oded Amir Senior Lecturer Guy Dori Clinical Lecturer Clinical Lecturer Lecturer Clinical Lecturer Carmel Rotschild Arie Lissak Mattitiahu Waterman Senior Lecturer Amir Degani Simon Duek Clinical Senior Lecturer Clinical Lecturer Senior Lecturer Yuli Starosvetsky Clinical Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer Beth Brianna Murinson Devy Zisman Barak Fishbain Dana Egozi Clinical Assoc. Professor Clinical Lecturer Senior Lecturer Shelly Tzlil Clinical Lecturer COMPUTER SCIENCE Senior Lecturer Aviram Netzer Mirela Ben-Chen Nael Elias Clinical Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer Clinical Lecturer Awards & Honors

SELECTED LIST Prof. Ilan Marek TECHNION PRIZES Henry Taub Prizes for Distinguished Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Academic Excellence • Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Prof. Dan Shechtman Alexander Goldberg Prize Established in 1986, these prizes recognize faculty 2011 Organometallic Chemistry Award Prof. Israel Cohen Faculty of Materials Engineering • 2012 Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for members who demonstrate exceptional achievements Faculty of Electrical Engineering 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Creativity in Organic Synthesis in research, teaching and service to the Technion.

Dr Gil Alexandrowicz Prof. Emeritus Shimon Mizrahi Henri Gutwirth Foundation Prof. Oren Bergman Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering Research Grants Faculty of Physics Wolf Foundation, 2012 Krill Prize Israel Food Industries Association, The Henri Gutwirth Foundation supports research Dr Gil Alexandrowicz 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award in grants at the Technion since 1973. Distinguished Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig the Academia Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Assoc. Prof. Mark Gandelman Prof. Michael Glickman Federal Republic of Germany, Distinguished Prof. Mordechai Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Order of Meritl (Moti) Segev Faculty of Biology Faculty of Physics Dr Kinneret Keren Assoc. Prof. Tamar Ziegler Prof. Hagit Attiya Israel Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Physics Faculty of Computer Science Humanities, Elected Member Faculty of Mathematics • ACM-EATCS, 2011 Edsger W. Dijkstra Dr Itai Yanai Assoc. Prof. Dovev Lavie Prize in Distributed Computing Prof. Emeritus Edna Shaviv Faculty of Biology • Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild Foundation), Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering 2011 Michael Bruno Award American Solar Energy Society, Passive and Management Solar Pioneer Award Juludan Research Prize For outstanding research in the application of modern Prof. Emeritus Zeki Berk Prof. Avishai Mandelbaum Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering Distinguished Prof. Dan Shechtman scientific or engineering techniques to medicine, which Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering International Association of Engineering and Faculty of Materials Engineering holds the potential of developing processes, products, and Management Food (IAEF), Lifetime Achievement Award Israel Chemical Society, 2011 Gold Medal or devices having practical application. Yanai Awards for Excellence Dr Dvir Yelin Prof. Eli Biham Prof. Moshe Tennenholtz in Education Faculty of Biomedical Engineering Faculty of Computer Science Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering Awarded for the first time in 2011, this prize is • 2012 RSA Conference Award and Management Ray and Miriam Klein Research Prize bestowed for a substantial and unique contribution to • International Association for Cryptologic ACM/SIGART, 2012 Autonomous Agents For an outstanding research work that contributes the advancement of the academic education of Research, Distinguished Lecturer for 2013 Research Award to Israel's industry, technology, security or undergraduate students. scientific standing. Distinguished Prof. Aaron Ciechanover Distinguished Prof. Emeritus Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Daniel Weihs Prof. David Chillag Assoc. Prof. Yair Ein-Eli Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Faculty of Mathematics Faculty of Materials Engineering Humboldt Research Award Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Honorary Doctorate Assoc. Prof. Uri Eliash Prof. Gad Eisenstein Kurt Mahler Prize in Mathematics Faculty of Mathematics Faculty of Electrical Engineering Prof. Emeritus Moussa Youdim for 2011 Assoc. Prof. Ayelet Fishman Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine For excellence in mathematics including applied Elected as Foreign Member • X International Catecholamine Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering Symposium, Giant Pioneer of mathematics. Prof. Gershon Elber Catecholamine Field Prof. Alon Gany • International College of Prof. Michail Zhitomirskii Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Faculty of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics Dagstuhl Seminar on Geometric Modeling, Neuropsychopharmacology, 2012 CINP 2011 John A. Gregory Memorial Award Pioneers in Psychopharmacology Award Prof. Shimon Gepstein Hershel and Hilda Rich Technion Faculty of Biology Prof. Yonina Eldar Innovation Awards Faculty of Electrical Engineering EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL These awards, established in 1992, are presented Dr Sefi Givli Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality, 2011 Weizmann to students, faculty members, or employees for Prize in Exact Sciences Starting Grants outstanding innovative projects with Assoc. Prof. Hossam Haick Prof. Roy Kishony commercial potential. Prof. Lior Gepstein Faculty of Biology Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Prof. Gera Neufeld, Boaz Kigel, Noa European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Assoc. Prof. Shulamit Levenberg Assoc. Prof. Amnon Katz Rabinowicz, Dr Asya Varshavsky, and Dr Outstanding Achievement Award Faculty of Biomedical Engineering Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ofra Kessler Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Prof. Michael Glickman Assoc. Prof. Pini Gurfil Assoc. Prof. Eitan Kimmel Faculty of Biology Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Faculty of Biomedical Engineering German Technion Society, Prof. Yoram Reiter and Dr Rony Dahan 2012 Science Prize Faculty of Biology Assoc. Prof. Avinoam Kolodny COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION Faculty of Electrical Engineering Prof. Emeritus David Hasson Dr Avner Rothschild Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering Faculty of Materials Engineering Prof. Avishai Mandelbaum Allon Fellows Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering Mifal Hapayis, 2011 Landau Award for Dr Guy Bartal Sciences and Research Prof. Moshe Shoham and and Management Faculty of Electrical Engineering David Zarrouk Distinguished Prof. Avram Hershko Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Doron Melamed Dr. Amir Yehudayoff and Prof. Menashe Zaaroor Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Mathematics University of Haifa, Honorary Doctorate Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Prof. Noam Soker Dr Amos Yarom Prof. Nir Tessler and Faculty of Physics Dr Kinneret Keren Faculty of Physics Faculty of Physics Ariel Ben-Sasson EBSA (European Biophysical Societies‘ Faculty of Electrical Engineering Prof. Irad Yavneh Association), 2011 Young Investigator‘s Faculty of Computer Science Medal Technion Societies Worldwide PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2012 83

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