Harry J. Saal is an American technology entrepreneur, executive, and philanthropist.

Biography

Saal was a

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finalist in 1960 and received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., all from

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. He joined the Stanford University Linear Accelerator Center after receiving his doctorate in physics. He was also a lecturer in Stanford's computer science department. Saal was a visiting professor of the State University of New York from 1972 to 1973 before joining the IBM Corporation. He worked for IBM's scientific center in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

and then IBM General Products division in

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. In 1979, he left IBM to found Nestar Systems, a pioneer in developing local area network systems for personal computers, with Len Shustek. In 1986, Saal, co-founded Network General Corporation, a network diagnostics company which developed the Sniffer, a protocol analyzer, with Shustek. He served as CEO and President of Smart Valley Inc., from 1993 to 1998, a nonprofit organization serving to enhance the quality of life in the

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. He was also a director and vice chairman of Inprise Corporation from 1993 to 1996, a director of

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from 1997 to 1998, and chairman of Retrotope until 2020. In 2002, Saal was chosen by the

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to serve to lead the Technical Committee charged with monitoring and enforcing the Microsoft anti-trust case. Saal is active in civic life. He served as a director and was chairman of the

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. He was also a director of the

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, and served on the board of advisors of University of Maryland Business School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Henry Crown Fellowship Program of the Aspen Institute. He has been a director of the

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...

since 2012. Between 1989 and 1996, he has given away more than 20 percent of his net worth to various philanthropic causes, including medical research, education charities, and the assistance of Jewish refugees from Russia.

References

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