Background
Amarel, Saul was born on February 16, 1928 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Son of Albert and Sol (Pelossof) Amario. came to the United States, 1957, naturalized, 1962.
Amarel, Saul was born on February 16, 1928 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Son of Albert and Sol (Pelossof) Amario. came to the United States, 1957, naturalized, 1962.
Bachelor of Science, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 1948. Ingenieur Electrical engineer, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 1949. Master of Science, Columbia, 1953.
Doctor of Engineering Science, Columbia, 1955.
Science deputy, Israel Ministry Defense, 1948-1952;
project leader control and computer systems, Israel Ministry Defense, 1955-1957;
research engineer, Electronic Research Laboratory, Columbia, 1953-1955;
head computer theory research, Radio Corporation of America laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey, 1957-1969;
professor computer science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1969-1987;
Alan M. Turing professor computer science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 1987;
department chairman computer science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1969-1984;
director Laboratory Computer Science Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1977-1984;
director Rutgers Research Resource in Computers in Medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1971-1983;
director information processing technical office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1985-1986;
director Information Science and Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1986-1987;
visiting professor computer science, Carnegie Mellon U., 1966;
visiting senior research scientist, Carnegie Mellon U., spring 1985;
visiting scholar, Stanford University, 1979;
visiting research fellow, Socially Responsible Investment International, spring 1983;
director Hypercomputing & Design project, Rutgers University, since 1993. Member chairman/biological information handling review committee National Institutes of Health, 1971-1975. Member information science advising committee New Jersey Department Higher Education, 1973-1976.
Member executive and advisory committees SUMEX-American Institute of Management, 1974-1990. Trustee International Joint Confs. Artificial Intelligence, 1981-1989, general chairman, 1983.
Member of national advising committee Bionet, 1984-1987. Board directors New Jersey Ednl. Computer Network, 1975-1980.
Chair Federal Coordinating Council for Science Engineering and Technology of Office of Science and Tech.Policy Subcommittee on Computer Research and Development, 1986-1987. Advanced technical advising committee National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1987-1990. Member Information Science and technical Study Group, Institute Defense Analyses, 1987-1995, commission on science and arts, computer and cognitive cluster Franklin Institute, 1991-1995.
Trustee Ramapo College, New Jersey, 1969-1973, Charles Babbage Foundation, 1995—2002, board directors, 1996-2001. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Artificial Intelligence (founding, executive council 1982-1986). Member Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Association Computing Machinery, Sigma Xi.
He was a pioneering contributor to advanced computing and Artificial Intelligence methodologies, both applied to scientific inquiry as well as engineering practice.
Married Marianne Kroh, December 20, 1953. Children: Dan, David. Married Irene Rosenberg, October 13, 1990.