Rodnay Zaks (born 10 February 1946, Paris) is a French-born American author of many books on computer programming, including the seminal '' Programming the Z80'' and ''Programming the

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''. He is the founder of independent computer book publisher

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and was its president and chief executive officer (CEO) until its

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in May 2005. Zaks has an engineering degree from the

École Centrale Paris École Centrale Paris (ECP; also known as École Centrale or Centrale) was a French grande école in engineering and science. It was also known by its official name ''École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures''. In 2015, École Centrale Paris mer ...

and a master's degree from the

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, where he also was the third person to receive a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the then new

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department. He began a career in training engineers and managers in the then new

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technology, and subsequently founded Sybex in 1976. Zaks has been a director of

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's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture (SIGMICRO), and founded the non-profit organization

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. An early publication of Zaks' from

was ''A microprogrammed APL implementation'' which includes the complete

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listing for the

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for a Digital Scientific Corporation Meta 4 microprogrammable processor implementing the

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APL.

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