Jerome Elkind is an

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and computer scientist. In 1988 he was co-founder of the Lexia Institute.

Biography

Elkind was educated at the

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, earning his undergraduate degree in 1951 and Sc.D. in 1957. He went on to join

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and participated for them in the 1960

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. He then was appointed head of the Computer Science Laboratory at

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Palo Alto Research Center PARC (Palo Alto Research Center; formerly Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, the company was originally a division of Xero ...

(1971-8). Here he held budgetary responsibility for new projects. He also worked with Bob Taylor on the Xerox Alto. He went on to become Vice President of Systems Integration at

Personal life

In 1959, he married engineer Linda Starr Valenstein, daughter of advertising executive

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ceremony in Scarsdale.Herald Statesman: "Dr. Elkind, Engineer Weds Scarsdale Girl"
January 19, 1959

References

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