Background
Gelfand, Jack Jacob was born on August 5, 1944 in Newark. Son of Max and Betty Gelfand.
Gelfand, Jack Jacob was born on August 5, 1944 in Newark. Son of Max and Betty Gelfand.
Bachelor in Chemistry, Rutgers University, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Chemistry, Rutgers University, 1971.
Research engineer Solid State Division, Radio Corporation of America Corporation, Somerville, New Jersey, 1971-1972;
postdoctoral fellow in astrophysical science, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1972-1975;
research staff scientist astrophysical science, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1975-1977;
research scientist, Princeton (New Jersey) U., since 1989;
group head Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, Socially Responsible Investment International, Sarnoff laboratories, Princeton, 1985-1988. Session organizer, chairman Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium on Intelligent Control, Alexandria, Virginia, 1988. Member program committee Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium on Intelligent Control, Philadelphia, 1990, International Conference on Robotics, Motion and Machine Vision, Aachen, Germany, 1994.
Panel participant, speaker Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium on Games, Planning and Learning, Research Triangle Park, 1993, Workshop on Symbolic and Subsymbolic Processing, The Cognitive Dimension, Anaheim, California, 1992, panel moderator Spring Symposium on Selective Perception, Stanford, California, 1992. Invited speaker University of Southern California.Workshop on Neurol Networks and Robotics, 1991, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Research Workshop on Highly Redundant Sensors in Robotics, Il Ciocco, Italy, 1988. Consultant Princeton (New Jersey) Science Instruments, 1992-1993.
Reviewer in field.
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Society for Neurosci.
Married Linda Sproehnle, May 1, 1993.