Background
Brudner was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 29, 1931 to Anna Fidelman (1901-1963) and Joseph Brudner (1898-1968?), and he had a brother, Sol B. Brudner.
Brudner was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 29, 1931 to Anna Fidelman (1901-1963) and Joseph Brudner (1898-1968?), and he had a brother, Sol B. Brudner.
Harvey received his Bachelor of Surgery in Engineering Physics in 1952 and graduated cum laude from New York University. Two years later, he received his Master of Surgery in Physics, and then his Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics in 1959, also from New York University.
He was President of the Joyce Kilmer Centennial Commission, and the Highland Park, New Jersey Centennial Commission. He was an early proponent of using computers to educate. Foreign many years he wrote on Babylonian mathematics.
He was President of Medical Development, Incorporated. originally in Jersey City, New Jersey and later in Fort Lee, New Jersey in 1962.
In 1962 he hired one of people sent to New York City in a reverse freedom ride. Brudner then was professor, and later the Dean of Science and Technology at the New York Institute of Technology from 1962 to 1964.
He moved to the American Can Company in 1964 and stayed till 1967. He became Vice President of research and development at Westinghouse Learning Corporation, a computer service and training consulting firm owned by Westinghouse Electric, from 1967 to 1971.
From 1971 to 1976 he was President of Westinghouse Learning Corporation.
He was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1978, "for leadership in the development and application of computers and electronic, audio-visual systems in education and training."
He later was the President of the Joyce Kilmer Centennial Commission, in New Brunswick, New Jersey from 1985 to the present. He was also President of the Highland Park, New Jersey Centennial Commission. He died on September 15, 2009 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
United States. Patent 3,139,753 Digital Meter (1962)
United States. Patent 3,408,749 Branching-Instruction Teaching Device (1968)
United States. Patent 3,504,446 Comparator Switch Secretariat (1970)
United States. Patent 3,504,447 Student Keyboard (1970)
United States. Patent 3,654,708 Computer-Assisted Instruction Via Video Telephone (1972).
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.