Martin J. Rosenblum's Home Page
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In January of 1995 I
was a member of the board of the Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey
(ACGNJ) one if the first such groups formed. The other board members
tired of my constant prodding to get onto the Internet and I was
appointed to form an Internet Special Interest Group (SIG) for the
club. I ran this group from 1995 to 2001 when the Internet had become
so widespread that it permeated almost all the computer arts and we
dissolved the group. In
1990 I began to work during the spring as a volunteer with the American
Association of Retired Persons (AARP) program: Tax Consultants for the
Elderly (TCE). I worked in the Essex County, NJ chapter assisting
seniors in the preparation of their US tax returns. About ten years
later the IRS made tax software a part of the program and as I was one
of the few counselors with computer knowledge, it fell to me to start
the program in our county. I was appointed Essex County Technology
Coordinator, a post which I held until 2006, when I turned the job over
to some of the younger counselors.
I
retired from AT&T at the end of 1989. At that time I had been
running a small UNIX computing center there, associated mainly with the
development of packet networking systems. It was a great privilege to
be at Bell during the years when UNIX was exploding and to be working
in that general area.
From
1961 to 1975 I was at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where I worked in
nuclear instrumentation. I worked on projects for the measurement and
analysis of bubble chamber film, developed the first Positron Emission
Tomograph (CAT scanner), directed the production of a real-time
operating system for the gathering and analysis of spark chamber data
at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. I participated in the
development of control and analysis instumentation for a scanning
transmission electron microscope. My work on the bubble chamber film
apparatus resulted in a Ford Fellowship to pursue the same type of
development at the European Commission for Nuclear Research (C.E.R.N.)
near Geneva, where I spent some sixteen months.
From
1953 to 1961 I was a research assistant and later research associate at
the Physics Department at Yale University where I worked first on a U.
S. Navy radar project and later at the Yale Linear Electron Accelerator
Laboratory.
Though I
have been interested in computers since the mid '40s, I have been
working with computers only since 1950, when I took a position with the
Astronomy Department at Yale University. I worked on a project to
compute the orbits of the minor planets - the larger asteroids - from
measurments made on astronomical plates, using electromechanical IBM
punch card computers like the 602A calculating punch. I introduced the
utilization of these machines to the Department of Mathematics at Yale
for a statistical project, and my mentor, A. J. van Woerkom, introduced
them to the Physics Department where they were used to calculate the
ground states of the Helium atom. In 1952 I began work on connecting
two 602As to avoid many time-consuming sorting operations. Before this
was completed, I was transfered to Yale's Statistical Service Bureau.
If this work had been completed, it would have been the first
multi-processor.
I
have a B.A. from Yale, 1950, in Mathematics and Philosophy, an M.A.
from Yale, 1951, in Mathematics, an M.S. from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook,
1975, in Applied Mathematics, and an M.S. from Stevens Institute of
Technology, 1981, in Computer Science.
I live in Short Hills, NJ, and can
be reached by e-mail at
