Background
Brenner, Alfred Ephraim was born on September 11, 1931 in Brooklyn. Son of Hyman and Ricky (Levine) Brenner.
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Alfred Ephraim Brenner
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Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1958.
Career
Fellow, Center for European Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland, 1958-1959; instructor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959-1962; assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962-1966; senior research associate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966-1970; senior physicist, head computing department, Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, 1970-1985; president, Consortium for Scientific Computing, Princeton, New Jersey, 1985-1986; director applications research, Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, Maryland., 1986-1993; deputy director computer software engineering division, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia, since 1993. Chairman National Institute Standards and Technology Review Panel for Computing and Applied Mathematics, Gaithersburg, Maryland., 1985-1991. Science computer consultant unites states department Energy, Germantown, Maryland., 1980-1985, technical consultant, 1972-1986.
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Membership
Fellow American Physical Society. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (science supercomputer committee since 1983, computer society, chairman technical commission on supercomputing applications 1990-1994), Association for Computing Machinery, American Mathematics Society, New York Academy Sciences, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Connections
Married Rosamond Deborah Drooker, June 30,1958 (divorced 1987). Children: Tamara Jean, Kendra Susan, Lyle Abraham.
