Background
Choueka, Yaacov was born on June 16, 1936 in Cairo, Egypt. Arrived in Israel, 1957. Son of Aharon and Sarina (Dishi) Choueka.
consultant computer science educator
Choueka, Yaacov was born on June 16, 1936 in Cairo, Egypt. Arrived in Israel, 1957. Son of Aharon and Sarina (Dishi) Choueka.
Master of Science with distinction, Hebrew University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Hebrew University, 1971.
Faculty department mathematics and computer science Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, 1964—2004, professor computer science Israel, 1990—2004. Professor emeritus in computer science, since 2004. Head Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics Faculty of Natural Sciences, 1975—2005.
Head, principal investigator Responsa Project, 1975-1986. Invited researcher Bellcore, New Jersey, 1986-1987. Head, principal investigator Rav-Milim Project, Hebrew Computational Linguistics, 1988-1997.
Invited professor department computer science Institute for Medieval Studies University Montreal, 1979-1980. Head computerization Friedberg Genizah Project, since 2006. Speaker in field.
Capt Tsahal-Israeli Army, 1962-1965.
Married Sara Choueka. Children: Aharon, Avi, Yinon, Renanit, Yehonatan, Roey, Elyasaf, Shirat.