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PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:41 pm    Post subject: Famous Iranians Of Today and Tomorrow? Reply with quote

Famous Iranians and High Achievers Of Today and Tomorrow

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The greatness is not achieved by words but by hard work, difficult choices, actions and sacrifice. It takes more than intellect and general knowledge to create new generation of leaders with high standard of ethics, moral values and integrity. It takes courage and ethics. Certainly evolution's path towards greatness is not easy. The problem before us is how can brilliant minds, courage and ethics be concentrated to create critical mass for positive change and new roll model for future generation of great leaders to move the mankind to the new level of greatness in all aspects of life and discovery.
In spirit of Cyrus The Great, Darius The Great, Babak, Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Ferdowsi, Khayyam, Hafaz, Saadi and Rumi we are searching and promoting the best of Iranian today as a guiding lights for future generation.


Iranian Elites, and High Achievers Of Past

In the land of Cyrus the Great (Persia) a Persian Princess discovered wine about 4000 BC. Vessel with Two Feet, Northern Iran, 1000 - 800 B.C.E.


Khayyam (May 1050 - Dec 1122) was a Persian poet as well as a mathematician and astronomer. The father of Algebra was an outstanding mathematician and astronomer. His work on algebra was known throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, and he also contributed to calendar reform. Khayyam measured the length of the year as 365.24219858156 days. Two comments on this result. Firstly it shows an incredible confidence to attempt to give the result to this degree of accuracy. We know now that the length of the years is changing in the sixth decimal place over a person's lifetime. Secondly it is outstandingly accurate. For comparison the length of the year at the end of the 19th century was 365.242196 days, while today it is 365.242190 days. Khayyam poems are targeting all forms of fanaticism and today we should consider him as father of battle against fanaticism and ignorance.

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Iranian-American Dr. Firouz Naderi
Director, Solar System Exploration Programs
and Mars Exploration Program Manager


Dr. Firouz Naderi is the recipient of a number of individual and group awards including Technology Hall of Fame medal, the NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal, and this year’s Liberal Prize winner awarded by an Italian foundation to an international personality who has “contributed profound changes in ideas in modern times”.

Source: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/bios/naderi/

JPL Executive Council
The Executive Council is JPL's senior management

Source: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/people/council/

Dr. Naderi is the head of Mars Exploration Program at JPL. The program consists of a chain of scientifically and technologically interrelated projects with one or more spacecraft launched to Mars every 26 months. In summer of 2000 he helped to architect this program and has responsibility for its end-to-end implementation. During his tenure three successful missions have orbited or landed on Mars. Dr. Naderi is also the Director for the Solar System Exploration Programs and chairs JPL’s Strategic Management Council.

Previously he spent four years as the program manager of the Origins Program—NASA’s ambitious technology-rich plan to search for evidence of life outside the Solar System.

Dr. Naderi’s formal education is in electrical engineering; he received his Ph.D. from University of Southern California (USC) writing his dissertation in the area of digital image processing.

He joined JPL in September of 1979. His early work at JPL was on system design of large satellite-based systems for nationwide cellular phone coverage. Dr. Naderi went to NASA Headquarters for two years in the mid-80s to serve as the program manager for the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) the front-runner of today’s multi-beam space-switching commercial satellites. Upon his return to JPL he became the project manager for the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) Project aimed at space-based measurement of winds over the global oceans with application to weather forecasting. He was a cofounder of a startup company in the mid-‘80s and consultant to other startup companies in the same period

His 25 years at JPL spans systems engineering, technology development, program and project management as applied to satellite communications systems, Earth remote sensing observatories, astrophiscical observatories and planetary systems. He is the recipient of NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal.

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News: JPL's New Associate Director Led Successful Mars Exploration
2/23/05

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news-print.cfm?release=2005-033

JPL's Dr. Firouz Naderi will become the laboratory's Associate Director for Programs, Project Formulation and Strategy, effective March 7.
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Dr. Firouz M. Naderi, manager of NASA's Mars Exploration Program since April 2000, will broaden his oversight of endeavors to study other parts of the universe, from Earth to distant galaxies, in a new leadership position at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
JPL Director Dr. Charles Elachi has announced that Naderi will become JPL's laboratory's Associate Director for Programs, Project Formulation and Strategy, effective March 7.

Elachi said, "Firouz was called on to lead the Mars Program at JPL five years ago when the program had experienced some setbacks. He helped restructure the program and has led it to some spectacular successes. Now we are putting to a wider purpose the strength that Firouz has shown in strategic planning of the Mars program. In his new role, he will help position JPL to work with the rest of NASA in accomplishing the nation's full vision for space exploration."

In the new position, besides overseeing JPL's broad existing programs, Naderi will be in charge of long-term strategic planning for JPL and will coordinate advance studies, acquisition of new missions, and development of projects early in their life cycle.

The current deputy manager for Mars exploration, Dr. Fuk K. Li, will become manager of that program. Peter C. Theisinger, project manager for the Mars Science Laboratory mission in development, will succeed Li as deputy manager of the Mars Exploration Program. Richard A. Cook, now Theisinger's deputy, will become project manager of the Mars Science Laboratory mission.

Two weeks ago, NASA honored Naderi with its highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal, citing his "distinguished contribution to space science and exploration."

Naderi joined JPL in 1979 and has held a number of program and project management positions. For four years prior to managing the recent successes of NASA's Mars program, he managed the NASA's Origins Program, an ambitious plan to search for other Earths around other suns. Earlier positions included program manager for space science flight experiments and project manager for the NASA Scatterometer, which monitored winds from Earth orbit. Naderi, who was born in Shiraz, Iran, and moved to the United States 40 years ago, holds three degrees in electrical engineering: a bachelor's from Iowa State University in Ames, and a master's and doctorate from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He lives in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Li has been Deputy Director of the Mars Exploration Directorate since 2004. JPL coordinates the Mars Exploration Program for all of NASA, which currently has two spacecraft studying Mars from orbit, two rovers active on the surface and four spacecraft in development.

From 2001 to 2004, Li was the Deputy Director of the Solar System Exploration Directorate, and from 1997 to 2001, he managed NASA's New Millennium Program, which develops and tests new technologies in space flight for use in later science missions. Previously, he managed the Earth Science Program, was project engineer for the NASA Scatterometer and was involved in various radar remote-sensing activities. He earned his bachelor's and doctorate degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, before joining JPL in 1979. He lives in Arcadia, Calif.

Theisinger has managed the Mars Science Laboratory Project since February 2004. The project is developing a rover with a science payload more than 10 times as massive as those on the current Mars Exploration Rovers. The project's advanced landing techniques will make many of Mars' most intriguing regions viable destinations for the first time.

Theisinger managed the Mars Exploration Rover Project from its inception in mid-2000 until after the successful landings and initial surface operations of the rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Prior JPL positions included deputy manager for the Mars Sample Return Project, mission support and development manager for the Mars Surveyor Operations Project and project engineer for the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft development project. He first joined JPL in 1967, the year he received a bachelor's degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He lives in La Crescenta, Calif.

Cook became deputy project manager for Mars Science Laboratory in June 2004 after four months as project manager for the Mars Exploration Rovers. He had earlier helped lead the development and operation of Spirit and Opportunity as flight systems manager and deputy project manager. Previously, Cook was flight operations manager for the Mars Pathfinder Project, which put a lander and small rover on Mars in 1997. He joined JPL in 1989 and worked on the Magellan mission to Venus prior to Pathfinder. He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a master's in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas, Austin. He lives in Santa Clarita, Calif.

JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:46 pm    Post subject: Googoosh Top Iranian Super Star Reply with quote

Googoosh The Top Iranian Super Star Who Her Recent Concerts
In LA and Washington Attracted Over 15000 Iranians



Source: http://www.googoosh.com/about.html

Madonna, Barbara, Celine, Judy, Omul, Googoosh Whomever you call the best does not matter. Iran's single most successful super star is Googoosh. Today, she consistently outsells all other Iranian popstars by a factor of 10. She is the quintessential Diva and sets the standard by which all others follow.

Her style, grace, fire and passion for her craft leave no doubt as to her greatness and countless millions from around the world follow her every move with an enthusiasm and following that is timeless and endless.

Googoosh was born Faegheh Atashin in 1951 on Sarcheshmeh Street, in an old and worn down part of Tehran, to Azerbaijani immigrant parents from the former Soviet Union. When she was two, they separated. Because of her father's profession - he was an acrobat and an entertainer - she grew accustomed to the stage early on, and was part of his act until she was three. She began doing impersonations of some of the singers of the time. When her father discovered this talent, he put her on stage. She has been on stage as a paid professional since she was three.

Googoosh had one brother who, at the age of 24, was struck by heart rheumatism and passed away. She has three half-brothers on her father's side and a brother and sister on her mother's side.

Because Googooosh's mother was separated from her father when Googoosh was young, Googoosh never got a chance to live with her. Her mother later remarried and as a result, Googoosh didn't see her again until she was 13. For a while she was even told that her mother had passed away - so that she wouldn't ask for her on the road.

Because Googoosh lived with her stepmother, she didn't have a very good home life. But she was occupied with school and performances, and was kept busy with household chores. She was also in charge of one of her brothers.

The name "Googoosh" is an Armenian name but for a boy and was given to her at birth. But because it was a boy's name there was a problem registering the name on her birth certificate. As a result, her registered name is Faegheh.

During the 1970's Googoosh began a meteoric rise to fame and success as she drove the edge of Iranian pop music further and further. Known for her flamboyant outfits, and fashion sense, Googoosh wowed her pop culture hungry fans in Iran and abroad with her trademark hairdos and hip-elegant style. Iranian women changed hairdos with Googoosh and she was always one step ahead of them with a new look.

Googoosh's private life was not quite so successful and a series of bad marriages and abusive relationships followed. She has one son Kambiz who is also in the music industry in Los Angeles.

After the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, Googoosh had been forbidden from performing and her material had been banned. She kept herself occupied at home, taking care of her house, reading. Because she had no intentions of leaving Iran, she adapted to her new life. Many people would tell her that other Iranian singers who began their careers much later in life than she did were choosing to leave because they could not endure not being able to perform. They would ask how it was that she, who had always been on stage, managed to adapt.

For a time Googoosh battled depression until the early 1990s when she met Massoud Kimiai (now her husband). He saw her sadness, and later told her that it was as if the flower of her soul had withered. On their first date he took her to a private recording studio in Tehran and after years of silence she put on her headphones, and started to sing for the first time in years. This had an overwhelming effect on her and gradually an energy quickly spread within her. Now drawing from the love she received from people since the end of the Iran-Iraq war, tt was this support which brought her out of her depression.

In 1999 rumors spread to Iran that a following had grown outside of Iran and the many ex-patriate Iranians who had left Iran during the revolution yearned for Googoosh to perform again. It was under this encouragement and the opportunity presented by an Iranian concert promoter that enabled Googoosh to leave Iran in 2000 and start a concert tour that spanned the globe.

Today Googoosh is based in Toronto Canada where she continues to work on her music career as well as independent films. Googoosh still tours regularly and her concerts are sold out events throughout the Iranian and non-Iranian communities wherever she goes.


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:01 pm    Post subject: Iranian Jew Moshe Katsav Eighth President of Israel Reply with quote

Iranian Jew President Moshe Katsav Eighth President of Israel


The ‎President of Israel with the photograph of his parents, Gohar and Shmuel Katsav,
in the background during the filming of the "Encore Program" which was shown on Channel 1





Moshe Katsav
Eighth President of the State of Israel
Source: http://www.president.gov.il/defaults/default_en.asp

Moshe Katsav was born on the 1st of Tevet 5705 (December 5, 1945) in the city of Yazd, in central Iran. Yazd was called Little Jerusalem because of the abundance of Jewish schools for Torah study, religious sages, and synagogues. The manuscripts of the last prophets were also found in Yazd. Moshe's parents were Goher and Shmuel; Moshe is the eighth descendent of the renowned Kabbalist Mullor Shraga. The Katsav family was part of the Babylonian exile -- Jews who were exiled from the Land of Israel in the year 586 BCE, after the destruction of the first temple.



When Moshe was 1 year old, his family moved from Yazd to Tehran, where his father, Shmuel Katsav, worked as a janitor at the Jewish Koresh School, which belonged to the Alliance network. In August 1951, when Moshe was 5, his family immigrated to Israel. They initially lived in Shaar Haaliya, near Haifa (Moshe received the scar on his face when the family lived there). The young family (his father was 30, his mother 22, and his sister, Shoshana, 1) subsequently moved to the transit camp at Castina, which later changed its name to Kiryat Malachi.

During the severe flooding of the winter of 1951, the tents of the immigrant camp collapsed. His two-month old baby brother Zion died. (Another brother, Aharon, had died in Iran, in Yezd). Moshe was evacuated, with other children, to moshavs in the area. Moshe was evacuated to Kfar Bilu; his parents didn’t know where he had been moved. His worried parents finally found him living with the Sharir family in Kfar Bilu.

The Katsav family lived in a tent in the transit camp for 2 years, experiencing distress, unemployment, and scarce supplies. One day, when Moshe was playing among the tents, Ms. Rivka Gover, known as Mother of Sons, suggested that he study, and that day he began attending first grade in the Haachim School in Kiryat Malachi. Two years later, the family moved to a one-and-a-half-room hut, which had its own private toilet, albeit at some distance from the hut.

After 4 years of living in the hut, the family moved to a permanent semi-detached house with two and a half rooms.

Moshe Katsav first visited Jerusalem when Yanait Ben Zvi, wife of the then President, invited children from transit camps who had excelled in reading public library foundation books to visit the President’s House. During this visit, Moshe was received by the President’s wife and was embraced by Israel’s second President, Yitzhak Ben Zvi.

Moshe Katsav graduated from Kiryat Malachi’s primary school and decided to attend high school at the BenShemen Youth Village, where his studies profoundly affected him. In addition to his studies, Moshe specialized in agricultural work, milking cows and working in fruit tree plantations. He subsequently attended Beer-Tuvia High School. He finished his final examinations and was then drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces, serving in the Signal Corps in the Armored Corps Headquarters. Moshe was the eldest son of a family of nine children. His father was employed as a laborer in a linen thread factory and, later, as a watchman at the Marbak beef-butchering factory. To help support this large family, Moshe was given a lot of leave during his military service; he worked mainly in construction.

When Moshe was discharged from the Israel Defense Forces, he worked as a clerk in Bank Hapoalim and as an assistant in the Volcani Agricultural Research Institute. At that time, he also worked as a journalist at the Yedioth Aharonoth daily newspaper and served as the President of Bnei Brith Youth. There he met his wife Gila, a descendant of the Gur Hassids; her parents were from Poland and the Ukraine.

He saved money to finance his studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he studied economics and history. He was the first student at the University from Kiryat Malachi.

As a student, he began his political activity and was elected as chairman of the Gachal student cell at the Hebrew University in 1969. During his studies, at age 24, he ran successfully for mayor of Kiryat Malachi, becoming the youngest mayor in the country.

Moshe participated in the Six-Day War at Sharm-A-Sheikh. In the Yom Kippur War, he served both in General Avraham Eden’s division and under Brigade Commander Brigadier General Natke Nir. Moshe was among the forces that crossed the Suez Canal, reaching the outskirts of Suez City.

In 1977, he ran successfully for the ninth Knesset in the Likud Party. Thus, Moshe became the first person raised in a development town to be elected to the Knesset. In the ninth Knesset, he held two concurrent posts: Knesset member and Mayor of Kyriat Malachi. In the tenth Knesset, Prime Minister Menachem Begin appointed Moshe as Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and the government’s Neighborhood Restoration Project Commissioner. The Neighborhood Restoration Project was undertaken jointly by the government and Diaspora Jewry to restore poorer neighborhoods. In the eleventh Knesset, Moshe was elected as Minister of Labor and Social Welfare in the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, and in the twelfth Knesset, Moshe was appointed Minister of Transport and a member of the Ministerial Committee for Security Affairs.

In the thirteenth Knesset, in 1992, upon being relegated to the opposition, Moshe was elected as Chairman of the Likud Party in the Knesset and Chairman of the Israel-China Friendship Association. In the fourteenth Knesset, he was elected Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Tourism, and the Minister for Israeli Arabs.

In August 2000, the Knesset elected Moshe Katsav as President of the State of Israel.




Milestones


· Born in Yezd, Iran, in 1945
· Immigrated to Israel in 1951
· Married to Gila and father of five
· Resident of Kiryat Malachi since it was established in 1951


Education

· “Ha'achim” Elementary School in Kiryat Malachi
· “Ben-Shemen” Youth Village High School
· Be'er Tuviya Regional High School
· Graduate of Hebrew University, School of Teaching
· Graduate of Hebrew University, Department of Economics and History



Positions held in the Government and in the Knesset


In the Ninth Knesset, 1977-1981: Member of the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee and the Education and Culture Committee


In the Tenth Knesset, 1981-1984: Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction


In the Eleventh Knesset, 1984-1988: Minister of Labor and Social Welfare


In the Twelfth Knesset, 1988-1992: Minister of Transportation
Member of the Ministerial Committee on Defense


In the Thirteenth Knesset, 1992-1996: Chairman of the Likud faction in the Knesset
Chairman of the Israel-China Parliamentary Friendship League


In the Fourteenth Knesset, 1996-1999: Member of the Ministerial Committee on Defense
Deputy Prime Minister
Minister of Tourism
Chairman of the Ministerial Committee on Emblems and Ceremonies
Minister in charge of the Arab sector


In the Fifteenth Knesset, 1999-2000: Member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee




Public activities


· Mayor of the Kiryat Malachi City Council, 1969, 1974-1981
· President of the Young Bnei Brith
· Chairman of the Gahal Party student faction at Hebrew University
· Chairman of the “Committee on Adoption,” headed by Justice Moshe Etzioni
· Chairman of the Committee to Fix Tuition in Institutions of Higher Education
· Member of the Board of Trustees of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
· Honorary doctorate from the University of Omaha, Nebraska, USA
· Honorary doctorate from George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA
· Honorary doctorate from the University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
· Honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University New York, USA
· Honorary Doctorate from Bar-Ilan University.
· Honorary Doctorate from the Agricultural University in Beijing, China.
· Honorary Doctorate from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France.


Publications

· Books

”Moshe Katsav – from Kastina Transit Camp to the Seat of Government,” Menachem Michelson, Yedioth Aharonoth

· Press Articles:

· “Iranian Jewry – Two Sides of the Coin,” Maariv, January 26, 1979
· “Why Did Integration in Education Not Succeed?” Maariv, January 27, 1980
· “The Real Social Revolution,” Yedioth Aharonoth, July 19, 1983
· “I am Certainly Not a Child. I Have My Own Way,” Haaretz, May 11, 1984
· “How to Import Thousands of Workers into Israel,” Maariv, May 27, 1988
· “Sound Roads, Bumpy Roads – One Careless Driver can Cause a Disaster,” Yedioth Aharonoth, October 7, 1991
· “A Hundred Days’ Grace,” Yedioth Aharonoth, October 20, 1992
· “Primaries: The good, the bad, and the lovely,” Ma'ariv, November 24, 1992
· “Unemployment is Not Diminishing, It is Increasing,” Maariv, April 20, 1993
· “The Blockade is a Political Need, Not a Security One,” Maariv, May 2, 1993
· “Supporting Change, Against Direct Election,” Maariv, June 6, 1993
· “Removing the Disgrace,” Maariv, April 21, 1994
· “To prevent under all conditions“, Maariv 2.6.1994
· “Insufficient,” Maariv, August 17, 1994
· “Status-quo is preferable to Peace“, Yediot Aharonot, 19.5.1995
· “What Fears are There?” Maariv, December 18, 1995
· “It’s Easier to Concede for the Secular,” Maariv, August 17, 1999
· “I succeeded in preventing deterioration“, Maariv 8.10.1999
· “I came up from the bottom“, Yediot Aharonot, 13.11.1999
· “The President's Hour,” Yedioth Aharonoth, June 5, 2000.
· “We will triumph", Yediot Aharonot 15.2.2001
· “The People’s Pioneer Corps,” Yedioth Aharonoth, June 19, 2001
· "Being a Jew," The Jerusalem Post, September 8, 2003
· "A Day of National Soul Searching", Yedioth Aharonoth, July 7, 2004
· "‎Stop Building" by Ben Caspit, Maariv, 26.11.2004
· "‎The President against the Rabbis" by Nahum Barnea, Yediot Aharonot, 8.4.2005
· "It is my brethren that I seek" Yediot Aharonot, 22.7.2005
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:19 pm    Post subject: Iranian Jew Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz Minister of Defense Reply with quote

Iranian Israeli Jew Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz Israel Minister of Defense



Source : http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/mofaz.html

Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz, born in Iran in 1948, is married with four children. He immigrated to Israel in 1957. In 1966 he joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and as a paratrooper, in the Six-Day War he fought in the Negev. He then filled command positions in the Paratroop Brigade. He commanded the Paratroop Reconnaissance Unit and a paratroop battalion, served as a Deputy Paratroop Brigade Commander, and commanded the Paratroop Brigade. During the 1982 Operation Peace for Galilee, he was an infantry brigade commander. He received a BA in business administration from Bar-Ilan University and attended the Command and Staff College of the US Marine Corps. Subsequently he served as the Commander of IDF Officers School.

1986-88 Commander of the Paratroop Brigade
1988 Promoted to Brigadier-General
1988-90 Held senior position in Ground Corps Command
1990-92 Commander of the Galilee Formation
1993-94 Officer Commanding IDF forces in Judea and Samaria
1994 Promoted to Major-General
1994-96 G.O.C. Southern Command
1996-97 Chief of Planning Branch of the General Staff
1997 Deputy Chief of General Staff and Chief of General Staff Branch (J-3)
1998-2002 Became sixteenth Chief of General Staff

In November 2002, Shaul Mofaz was appointed Minister of Defense. He is married with four children.

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Shaul Mofaz
Minister of Defense



Source:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/2/Shaul%20Mofaz

Lieutenant-General (res.) Shaul Mofaz, was born in Iran in 1948 and immigrated to Israel in 1957.

In 1966 he joined the IDF, and as a paratrooper in the Six-Day War he fought in the Negev. He then filled command positions in the Paratroop Brigade. He commanded the Paratroop Reconnaissance Unit and a paratroop battalion, served as a Deputy Paratroop Brigade Commander, and commanded the Paratroop Brigade. During the 1982 Operation Peace for Galilee, he was an infantry brigade commander.

Mofaz received a BA in business administration from Bar-Ilan University and attended the Command and Staff College of the US Marine Corps. Subsequently he served as the Commander of IDF Officers School.

1986-1988 Commander of the Paratroop Brigade
1988 Promoted to Brigadier-General
1988-1990 Held senior position in Ground Corps Command
1990-1992 Commander of the Galilee Formation
1993-1994 Officer Commanding IDF forces in Judea and Samaria
1994 Promoted to Major-General
1994-1996 G.O.C. Southern Command
1996-1997 Chief of Planning Branch of the General Staff
1997 Deputy Chief of General Staff and Chief of General Staff Branch
1998-2002 16th Chief of General Staff

In November 2002, Shaul Mofaz was appointed Minister of Defense, and was reappointed to this post upon the formation of the new government in February 2003.

He is married with four children.
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Source: http://www.prismadesign.com/bijan/home.html

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:01 pm    Post subject: Pierre Omidyar Founder and Chairman of the Board, eBay Reply with quote

Pierre Omidyar
Founder and Chairman of the Board, eBay

http://pages.ebay.com/aboutebay/thecompany/executiveteam.html

As founder and chairman of eBay, Pierre Omidyar changed the face of Internet commerce in 1995 when he launched eBay to experiment how equal access to information and opportunities would affect the efficiency of a marketplace. Ten years later, his experiment continues to prove the benefits of a level playing field: hundreds of thousands of members make their living entirely on eBay, more than 150 million people trust strangers with every transaction, and people find common ground where none seemed to exist before.

When Pierre launched eBay as a hobby, his "day job" was conducting developer relations for General Magic. Prior to General Magic, he co-founded Ink Development Corp., which was renamed eShop and acquired by Microsoft. His career began in the software engineering business as a developer for Claris, a subsidiary of Apple Computer, where he worked on consumer applications.

Today, Pierre is CEO of Omidyar Network, a mission-based investment group he established with his wife, Pam, in June 2004. Omidyar Network is committed to fostering individual self-empowerment across the economic, political and social realms. The Network funds for-profits, nonprofits and public policy efforts that promote level playing fields, collaboration, and rich connections around shared interests to enable individuals to pursue what matters most to them.

In addition to his roles with eBay and Omidyar Network, Pierre serves as a Trustee of Tufts University and Santa Fe Institute, and a Director of Meetup Inc.

Pierre graduated from Tufts University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in computer science.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:43 pm    Post subject: Dr. Jamshid Ghajar Biography Reply with quote




Life Saver
Dr. Jamshid Ghajar

http://www.iranianamericanpac.org/leadership/p_Ghajar.shtml

Dr. Jamshid Ghajar was born in Berkeley, California, and grew up in California, Iran, and England. As a freshman at UCLA, he started his investigations in the brain sciences at the Brain Research Institute, a field which he continued to focus on during his graduate studies. At Cornell University Medical College, he completed the MD/PhD program in neuroscience, specializing in brain metabolism and blood flow during coma.

While he was a resident in the neurosurgery program at New York Hospital, Dr. Ghajar invented several neurosurgical devices that are currently used worldwide. After residency, he joined the faculty and staff at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and founded the Brain Trauma Research Laboratory and the Brain Trauma Foundation (formerly Aitken Neuroscience Center).

Dr. Ghajar currently spends a part of his time as President of the nonprofit foundation, developing and implementing scientific guidelines for treating head injuries. He is also Chief of Neurosurgery at New York's Jamaica Hospital - Cornell Trauma Center, and is a practicing neurosurgeon at New York Hospital. He directs several clinical grants including the Soros Head Injury Initiative in Central and Eastern Europe and the Guidelines for Pre-hospital Management of Traumatic Brain Injury funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Interview with Dr. Ghajar



Neurosurgeon Dr. Jamshid Ghajar is a tireless proponent of an aggressive approach to treating severe head injury. In 1996 he achieved renown for saving the life of a woman who was savagely beaten in Manhattan's Central Park. The techniques he uses, and his efforts to inform physicians around the world, are explored in the interview below, available in RealAudio and text.

NOVA: You've been at the forefront of a movement to improve treatment for head trauma. What is your goal?
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NOVA: What has been the conventional thinking about what causes brain injury?
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NOVA: How should physicians be treating coma patients during that first week in the hospital?

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GHAJAR: What we're now doing is targeting this area in terms of what therapy we can bring on to bear in the patients and improve the outcome of those patients by treating the brain swelling mainly. What's going on that causes that injury—not the first injury, but the second injury that occurs in the hospital—that's mostly caused by brain swelling. As the brain swells up, then the brain doesn't get enough blood and oxygen, and then parts of the brain die. So that injury in itself can be far worse than the first injury. And we've now recognized that.

NOVA: Given the critical importance of preventing that second injury, is there an accepted, standard way of treating head trauma patients in this country? If I wound up in a coma, and landed in a typical trauma center in this country, how would I be treated?

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NOVA: How was it that you came to learn that this is the typical way head trauma patients are treated in this country?

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NOVA: What was involved in developing the guidelines?

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NOVA: What is the key part of the guidelines?

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NOVA: How do you prevent the brain from swelling more?

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GHAJAR: You have this fluid that the brain makes every single day, and it floats in it - the spinal fluid. The thing is to put this tube into the middle of the brain where the spinal fluid is made so that you can measure the pressure in the brain and also if the pressure gets too high, you can just drain some of this fluid and relieve the swelling. That's the best way to do it. And the way we place this tube is we always put the tube in to the front part of the brain because there's no eloquent functions there. The motor functions, the vision and auditory, all those things aren't there. It's the silent part of the brain. You can go through it - it's basically like as thin as spaghetti, this little tube. And it causes no apparent damage that we can see in patients later on. And so we put the tube in, in the front part, usually in the right side of the brain, but if there is damage on the right side, we put it on the left side. And it takes about 10 or 15 minutes.

NOVA: Why is it so important to prevent the brain from swelling?

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NOVA: It sounds like treating the brain swelling is more work.

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NOVA: You're saying that a head trauma patient, because of the nature of the injury, is particularly at risk for not getting the best care?

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NOVA: That's a frightening thought - can you expand on that?

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NOVA: Do you meet any resistance from doctors when you present the guidelines at meetings for the first time?

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NOVA: Why should people care about these guidelines? Is head trauma really that common?

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NOVA: What motivates you to take this on?

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The Guidelines for the Management of Severe Head Injury were developed in 1995 as a joint initiative between the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), The Brain Trauma Foundation and The AANS/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care. These guidelines serve as a parameter for the treatment of severe head injury patients around the world. One of the central concepts that emerged from the clinical research that went into developing the guidelines is that neurological damage does not only occur at the moment of impact, but also evolves over the ensuing hours or days. This has led to the development of better monitoring and treatment methods aimed at preventing this secondary injury and improving the outcome for patients who have suffered a head injury.

For more guidelines information see www.braintrauma.org.

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Dr. Jamshid Ghahremani Ghajar featured in The New Yorker.


Above is a photograph of Jamshid Ghajar taken from the "NEW YORKER" of July 8, 1996. At forty-four, he is one of the USA's leading neurotrauma specialists. On his father side he is descended from the Qajar family that ruled Persia from the late seventeen-hundreds until 1925, and his gradfather on his mother side was the Shah of Iran's personal physician.

Today, Ghajar is the chief of neurosurgery at Jamaica Hospital, in Queens. He is also the President of the Aiken Neuroscience Institute in Manhattan, a research group that grew out of the double-tragedy experienced by the children of Sunny von Bülow in a car accident.




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From Conquering the Coma by Malcolm Gladwell in the July 8, 1996, issue of The New Yorker magazine.


On the afternoon of Tuesday, June 4th, a young woman was taken by ambulance from Central Park to New York Hospital, on the Upper East Side. When she arrived in the emergency room, around four o'clock, she was in a coma, and she had no identification.

Her head was, in the words of one physician, "the size of a pumpkin." She was bleeding from her nose and her left ear. Her right eye was swollen shut, and the bones above the eye were broken and covered by a black-and-blue bruise. Within minutes, she was put on a ventilator and then given X-rays and a CAT scan. A small hole was drilled in her skull and a slender silicone catheter inserted, to drain the pressure steadily building in her brain.

At midnight, after that pressure had risen precipitously, a neurosurgeon removed a blood clot from her right frontal cortex. A few hours later, Urgent Four -- as the trauma-unit staff named her, because she was the fourth unidentified trauma patient in the hospital at that time -- was wheeled from the operating room to an intensive-care bed overlooking the East River.

Urgent Four -- or the Central Park victim, as she became known during the spate of media attention that surrounded her case -- came close to dying on two occasions. Each time she fought back. On Wednesday, June 12th, eight days after entering the hospital, she opened one blue eye. The mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, was paying one of his daily visits to her room at the time, and she looked directly at him.

Several days later, she began tracking people with her one good eye as they came in and out of her room. She began to frown and smile. On June 12th, the neurosurgeon supervising her care leaned over her bed, pinched her to get her attention, and asked, "Can you open your mouth?" She opened her mouth. He said, "Is your name ----?" She nodded and mouthed her name.

There is something compelling about such stories of medical recovery, and something undeniably moving about a young woman fighting back from the most devastating injuries. In the days following the Central Park beating, the case assumed national proportions as the police frantically worked to locate Urgent Four's family and identify her attacker.

The victim turned out to be a talented musician, a piano teacher beloved by her students. her alleged assailant turned out to be a strange and deeply disturbed unemployed salesclerk, who veered off into Eastern mysticism during his interrogation by the police.

The story also had a hero, In Jam [Jamshid Ghahremani] Ghajar, the man who saved her life: a young and handsome neurosurgeon with an M.D. and a Ph.D., a descendant of Iranian royalty, who has an athlete's walk, strong, beautiful hands, and ten medical-device patents to his name. If this were the movies, Ghajar would be played by Andy Garcia.

Ghajar is, at forty-four, one of the country's leading neuro-trauma specialists. On his father's side, he is descended from the family that ruled Persia from the late seventeen hundreds until 1925, and his grandfather on his mother's side was the Shah of Iran's personal physician.

Neurosurgeons, Ghajar says, are "overachievers," and the description fits him perfectly. As a seventeen-year-old, he was a volunteer at the Brain Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As a seventeen-year resident of New York Hospital, he invented a device -- a tiny tripod to guide the insertion of ventricular catheters -- that made the cover of the Journal of Neurosurgery.

Today, Ghajar is the chief of neurosurgery at Jamaica Hospital, in Queens. He is also the president of the Aitken Neuroscience Institute, in Manhattan, a research group that grew out of the double tragedy experienced by the children of Sunny von Bülow, who lost not only his mother to coma but also their father, Prince Alfred von Auersperg, after a car accident, thirteen years ago.

Most days, Ghajar drives back and fourth between the hospital and the institute, juggling his research at Aitken, with a clinical schedule that keeps him on call two weeks out of every four. "Jam is completely committed -- he's got a razor-sharp focus," Sunny von Bülow's daughter, Ala Isham, told me. "He's godfather to my son. I always joke that we would carry little cards in our wallets saying that if anything happens to us call Jam Ghajar."

Ghajar spent all day Tuesday, June 4th, at Jamaica Hospital. In the evening, he returned to the Aitken Neuroscience Institute, where a colleague, Michael Lavyne, told him of the young woman hovering near death across the street at New York Hospital.

At seven o'clock, Ghajar left his office for the hospital. Two hours later, with Urgent Four's ICP at dangerous levels, he ordered a second CAT scan, which immediately identified the culprit: the bruise on her right frontal cortex had given rise to a massive clot. At midnight, Ghajar drilled a small hole in her skull, cut out a chunk three inches in diameter with a zip saw, and, he said, "this big brain hemorrhage just came out -- plop -- like a big piece of black jelly."

Had Urgent Four been taken to a smaller hospital, or to any of the thousands of trauma centers in America which do not specialize in brain injuries, the chances are that she would have been dead by the time any of her family arrived.

This is what trauma experts who are familiar with the case believe, and, of the many lessons the Central Park beating, it is the one that is hardest to understand. It's not, after all, as if Urgent Four were suffering from a rare and difficult brain tumor. Brain trauma is the leading cause of death due to injury for Americans under forty-five, and results in the death of some sixty thousand people every year.

Nor is it as if Urgent Four had been given some kind of daring experimental therapy, available only at the most exclusive research hospitals. The insertion of the ventricular catheter is something that all neurosurgeons are taught to do in their first year of residency. CAT scanners are in every hospital. The removal of Urgent Four's blood clots was straightforward neurosurgery. The raising and monitoring of blood pressure are taught in Nursing 101.

Urgent Four was treated according to standards and protocols that have been discussed in the medical literature, outlined at conferences, and backed by every expert in the field. Yet the fact is that if she had been taken to a smaller hospital or to any one of the thousands of trauma centers in American which do not specialize in brain injuries she would have been treated very differently.

When Ghajar and five other researchers surveyed the country's trauma centers five years ago, they found that seventy-nine percent of the coma patients were routinely given steroids, despite the fact that steroids have been shown repeatedly to be of no use -- and possibly of some harm -- in reducing intracranial pressure.

Ninety-five percent of the centers surveyed were relying as well on hyperventilation, in which a patient is made to breath more rapidly to reduce swelling -- a technique that specialists like Ghajar will use only as a last resort. The most troubling finding, however, was that only a third of the trauma centers surveyed said that they routinely monitored ICP at all.

Most neurosurgeons make their living doing disk surgery and removing brain tumors. Trauma is an afterthought. It doesn't pay particularly well, because many car-accident and shooting victims don't have insurance. (Urgent Four herself was without insurance, and a public collection has been made to help defray her medical expenses.)

Nor does it pose any kind of medical challenge that, say, an aneurysm or a tumor does. "It's something like -- well, you've got mashed-up brains, and someone got hit by a car, and it's not really very interesting," Ghajar says. "But brain tumors are kind of interesting. What's happening with the DNA? Why does a tumor develop?"

Then, there are the hours, long and unpredictable, tied to the rhythms of street thugs and drunk drivers. Ghajar, for example, routinely works through the night. he practices primarily out of Jamaica Hospital, not the far more prestigious New York Hospital, because Jamaica gets serious brain-trauma cases every second day and New York might get one only every second week.

"If I were operating and doing disks and brain tumors, I'd be making ten times as much," he says. In the entire country, there are no more than two dozen neurosurgeons who, like Ghajar, exclusively focus on researching and treating brain trauma.

Ghajar says that in talking to other neurosurgeons he sensed a certain resignation in treating brain surgery -- a feeling that the prognosis facing coma patients was so poor that the neurosurgeon's role was limited.

"It was just that there was so much information out there that it was confusing. When they got young people in comas, half of the patients would die. And the half that lived would be severely disabled, so the neurosurgeon is saying, 'What am I doing for these people? Am I saving vegetables?' And that was honestly the feeling that neurosurgeons had, because the methods they were trained in and were using would produce that kind of result."

Three years ago, after a neurosurgery meeting in Vancouver, Ghajar -- along with Randall Chesnut and Donald W. Marion, a brain-trauma specialist at the University of Pittsburgh -- decided to act. For help they turned to the Brain Trauma Foundation, which is the education arm of the brain-trauma institute started by Sunny von Bülow's children.

The foundation gathered some of the world's top brain injury specialists together for eleven-meetings between the winter of 1994 and last summer. Four thousand scientific papers covering fourteen aspects of brain-injury management were reviewed. In March of this year, the group produced a book -- a blue three-ring binder with fifteen bright-colored chapter tabs -- laying out the scientific evidence and state-of-the-art treatment in every phase of brain-trauma care.

The guidelines represent the first successful attempt by the neurosurgery community to come up with a standard treatment protocol, and if they are adopted by anything close to a majority of the country's trauma centers, they could save more than ten thousand lives a year. A copy has now been sent to every neurosurgeon in the country.

In his first week back on call after the Urgent Four case, Ghajar saw three new coma patients. The latest was a thirty-year-old man who had barely survived a serious car accident. He was in worse shape than Urgent Four had been with a hemorrhage on top of his brain.

He was admitted to Jamaica Hospital on Monday at 11 P.M., and Ghajar operated from midnight to 6 A.M. He inserted a catheter in the patient's skull to drain the spinal fluid and monitored his blood pressure, to make sure it was seventy points higher than his ICP. Then, that evening -- fourteen hours later -- the patient's condition worsened. "I had to go back in and take out the hemorrhage," Ghajar said, and there was a note of exhaustion in his voice. He left the hospital at one o'clock Wednesday morning.

"People want to personalize this," Ghajar said. He was on Seventy-second Street, outside his office, walking back to New York Hospital to visit Urgent Four. "I guess that's human nature. They want to say 'It's Dr. Ghajar's protocol. He's a wonderful doctor.' But that's not it. These are standards developed according to the best available science. These are standards that everyone can use."
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The "father of fuzzy logic," is a very prominent scientist, engineer and system theorist.

He was born in Baku, Azerbayejan in 1921. He finished high school at Alborz International High School, Tehran, Iran, in 1938 and received his B.S. degree in engineering from the University of Tehran in 1942, his M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946, and his Doctor of Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1949. He has served as a faculty member at both Columbia University and the University of California-Berkeley. He retired from UC-Berkeley in 1990, where he is now Director of UC Berkeley Initiative on Soft Computing.

He is affiliated with 30 journals, including honorary editor of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing (AutoSoft Press, 1995). He received the Paul-Sabatier University Honorary Doctorate in 1986, and Japan's Honda Award in 1989. He is a Guggenheim Fellow (1967-6Cool, a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1973), and a Fellow of the IRE (IEEE) in 1958, and received the IEEE Education Medal in 1973, the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 1992, ASME's Rufus Oldenburger Award in 1993, and the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1994.


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Lotfi Asker Zadeh, who described himself in an interview with Jeanne Spriter James as an "American, mathematically oriented, electrical engineer of Iranian descent, born in Russia," is responsible for the development of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory. Zadeh is also known for his research in system theory, information processing, artificial intelligence, expert systems, natural language understanding, and the theory of evidence. His first two papers that set forth the fuzzy theories, "Fuzzy Sets" and "Outline of a New Approach to the Analysis of Complex Systems and Decision Processes," have been listed as "Citation Classics" by the Citation Index, a publication that counts and lists those papers which have been cited most often in the writings of others. Zadeh received the prestigious Honda Prize--an award that was introduced in 1977 to honor technology that advances a "humane civilization"--from the Honda Foundation in Japan in 1989. That same ye.....


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Keynote Speaker: Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh
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Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720 -1776
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
E-mail: zadeh@eecs.berkeley.edu



Curriculum Vitae: Lotfi A. Zadeh joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1959, and served as its chairman from 1963 to 1968. Earlier, he was a member of the electrical engineering faculty at Columbia University. In 1956, he was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In addition, he held a number of other visiting appointments, among them a visiting professorship in Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1962 and 1968; a visiting scientist appointment at IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA, in 1968, 1973, and 1977; and visiting scholar appointments at the AI Center, SRI International, in 1981, and at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, in 1987-1988. Currently he is a Professor in the Graduate School, and is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing).

Until 1965, Dr. Zadeh's work had been centered on system theory and decision analysis. Since then, his research interests have shifted to the theory of fuzzy sets and its applications to artificial intelligence, linguistics, logic, decision analysis, control theory, expert systems and neural networks. Currently, his research is focused on fuzzy logic, soft computing, computing with words, and the newly developed computational theory of perceptions and precisiated natural language.

An alumnus of the University of Tehran, MIT, and Columbia University, Dr. Zadeh is a fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI and IFSA, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He held NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellowships in 1956-57 and 1962-63, and was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 1968. Dr. Zadeh was the recipient of the IEEE Education Medal in 1973 and a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984. In 1989, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Honda Prize by the Honda Foundation, and in 1991 received the Berkeley Citation, University of California.

In 1992, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal "For seminal contributions to information science and systems, including the conceptualization of fuzzy sets." He became a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Computer Sciences and Cybernetics Section) in 1992, and received the Certificate of Commendation for AI Special Contributions Award from the International Foundation for Artificial Intelligence. Also in 1992, he was awarded the Kampe de Feriet Prize and became an Honorary Member of the Austrian Society of Cybernetic Studies.

In 1993, Dr. Zadeh received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers "For seminal contributions in system theory, decision analysis, and theory of fuzzy sets and its applications to AI, linguistics, logic, expert systems and neural networks." He was also awarded the Grigore Moisil Prize for Fundamental Researches, and the Premier Best Paper Award by the Second International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology. In 1995, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor "For pioneering development of fuzzy logic and its many diverse applications." In 1996, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Okawa Prize "For outstanding contribution to information science through the development of fuzzy logic and its applications."

In 1997, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the B. Bolzano Medal by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic "For outstanding achievements in fuzzy mathematics." He also received the J.P. Wohl Career Achievement Award of the IEEE Systems, Science and Cybernetics Society. He served as a Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor, lecturing at the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and as the Gulbenkian Foundation Visiting Professor at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal. In 1998, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Edward Feigenbaum Medal by the International Society for Intelligent Systems and the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award by the American Council on Automatic Control. In addition, he received the Information Science Award from the Association for Intelligent Machinery and the SOFT Scientific Contribution Memorial Award from the Society for Fuzzy Theory in Japan. In 1999, he was elected to membership in Berkeley Fellows and received the Certificate of Merit from IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association). In 2000, he received the IEEE Millennium Medal; the IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems; the ASPIH 2000 Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award; and the ACIDCA 2000 Award for the paper, "From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words—From Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions." In addition, he received the Chaos Award from the Center of Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems for his outstanding scientific work on foundations of fuzzy logic, soft computing, computing with words and the computational theory of perceptions. In 2001, Dr. Zadeh received the ACM 2000 Allen Newell Award for seminal contributions to AI through his development of fuzzy logic. In addition, he received a Special Award from the Committee for Automation and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences for his significant contributions to systems and information science, development of fuzzy sets theory, fuzzy logic control, possibility theory, soft computing, computing with words and computational theory of perceptions. In 2003, Dr. Zadeh was elected as a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, and received the Norbert Wiener Award of the IEEE Society of Systems, Man and Cybernetics “For pioneering contributions to the development of system theory, fuzzy logic and soft computing.” In 2004, Dr. Zadeh was awarded Civitate Honoris Causa by Budapest Tech (BT) Polytechnical Institution, Budapest, Hungary. Also in 2004, he was awarded the V. Kaufmann Prize, International Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy (SIGEF).

Dr. Zadeh is a recipient of twenty-three honorary doctorates from: Paul-Sabatier University, Toulouse, France; State University of New York, Binghamton, NY; University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany; University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain; University of Granada, Granada, Spain; Lakehead University, Canada; University of Louisville, KY; Baku State University, Azerbaijan; the Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland; the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; the University of Ostrava, the Czech Republic; the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; the University of Paris(6), Paris, France; Jahannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria; University of Waterloo, Canada; and the University of Aurel Vlaicu, Arad, Romania; Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland; Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan; Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.

Dr. Zadeh has single-authored over two hundred papers and serves on the editorial boards of over fifty journals. He is a member of the Advisory Committee, Center for Education and Research in Fuzzy Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Iasi, Romania; Senior Advisory Board, International Institute for General Systems Studies; the Board of Governors, International Neural Networks Society; and is the Honorary President of the Biomedical Fuzzy Systems Association of Japan and the Spanish Association for Fuzzy Logic and Technologies. In addition, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo; a member of the Governing Board, Knowledge Systems Institute, Skokie, IL; and an honorary member of the Academic Council of NAISO-IAAC.

Professor in the Graduate School and Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), Computer Science Division, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-l776; Telephone: 5l0-642-4959; Fax: 5l0-642-l7l2; E-mail: zadeh@eecs.berkeley.edu http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh/

Research supported in part by ONR N00014-02-1-0294, BT Grant CT1080028046, Omron Grant, Tekes Grant and the BISC Program of UC Berkeley.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:38 pm    Post subject: Rudi Bakhtiar Reply with quote

Rudi Bakhtiar


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Rudi BakthiarRudi Bakhtiar (born June 21, 1966 in Fresno, California) (born Rudabeh Bakhtiar, in Persian:رودابه بختیار) is an Iranian-American journalist

Although born in California, Bakhtiar was raised in Iran until the revolution when her family moved to the United States. She attended University of California, Los Angeles, where she received a B.S. in biology, planning to be a doctor.

Bakhtiar joined CNN in 1996 as a co-anchor of CNN Student News, the 30-minute commercial free news and features program designed specifically for use in the classroom. She provided multiple reports while on assignment from numerous countries, including South Africa, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Mali. She was on the air live on CNN Headline News on September 11, 2001 when the terrorist attacks of that day began.

In 2002, Bakhtiar received the Iranian American Republican Council Achievement Award.

In 2005, after moving from CNN Headline News to CNN/U.S. to be a correspondent on the program Anderson Cooper 360, Bakhtiar left CNN to pursue other career interests and deal with family health issues.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:39 pm    Post subject: Elahé Mir-Djalali Omidyar Reply with quote



The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute was founded in 2000 by
Elahé Mir-Djalali Omidyar.

Dr. Mir-Djalali holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Sorbonne as well as two Master's degrees, one from the Sorbonne and the other from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Mir-Djalali's post-doctoral work has been in cross-cultural research and in the fields of language teaching methodology and Persian Studies. She taught Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley between 1992 and 2000 and has extensive experience as an educator, research director and cross-cultural expert.


Board of Directors

Elahé Mir-Djalali Omidyar, Ph.D., President and CEO

http://www.roshan-institute.org/site/roshani/section.php?id=9075
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:42 pm    Post subject: Habib Ladjevardi Reply with quote

Iranian Oral History Project | Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies



Habib Ladjevardi
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iohp/director/

ladjevar@fas.harvard.edu Habib Ladjevardi has been director of the Iranian Oral History Project at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies since 1981 and chair of the editorial board of the Harvard Middle Eastern Monograph Series since 1990. Born in Tehran, he grew up in Scarsdale, New York, and received his B.S. from Yale University, M.B.A. from Harvard University, and Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. Dr. Ladjevardi returned to Iran in 1963 to work in his family's business, the Behshahr Industrial Group, where he was one of the managing directors. He was the principal founder of the Iran Center for Management Studies in Tehran (established in 1970 in cooperation with members of the faculty of the Harvard Business School), where he taught Public Policy until 1978. He also served on a number of boards and councils in the private and public sectors. Dr. Ladjevardi is the author of Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1985).
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:47 pm    Post subject: Amir Top Fashion Designer Reply with quote

For over two decades Amir has been recognized
as one of the Top Fashion Desiner.


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Amir believes nothing says more about his designs than his creations themselves.
Take a look at a small sample of his latest designs for Ties, Shirts, and different Accessories.





http://amirfashion.com/history.html

For the past 25 years Amir has brought the concept of Understated Elegance to life through his designs. Attention to detail in design, tasteful creation of the finest fabrics in the world, and exquisite workmanship have always been the cornerstones of his vision. His clients have all come to expect the absolute best in whatever he does. He has been a trendsetter in his designs as well as his presentations. Amir was probably the first major designer to use Billboards on a large scale to showcase his creations.


Amir's show room in Bel Air (1975).

Amir in his factory, Florence (1979).

In 1984 Amir was appointed to design for Mayor Tom Bradley for the Summer Olympic Games held in Los Angeles.












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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Rudi Bakhtiar Reply with quote

cyrus wrote:
Rudi Bakhtiar


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Rudi BakthiarRudi Bakhtiar (born June 21, 1966 in Fresno, California) (born Rudabeh Bakhtiar, in Persian:رودابه بختیار) is an Iranian-American journalist

Although born in California, Bakhtiar was raised in Iran until the revolution when her family moved to the United States. She attended University of California, Los Angeles, where she received a B.S. in biology, planning to be a doctor.

Bakhtiar joined CNN in 1996 as a co-anchor of CNN Student News, the 30-minute commercial free news and features program designed specifically for use in the classroom. She provided multiple reports while on assignment from numerous countries, including South Africa, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Mali. She was on the air live on CNN Headline News on September 11, 2001 when the terrorist attacks of that day began.

In 2002, Bakhtiar received the Iranian American Republican Council Achievement Award.

In 2005, after moving from CNN Headline News to CNN/U.S. to be a correspondent on the program Anderson Cooper 360, Bakhtiar left CNN to pursue other career interests and deal with family health issues.

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She no longer works for CNN, at the present, she is at Fox News network, delivering news.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

With all due respect, to the choices of the “Elite Iranian” on this thread. I feel that if you are going to put Amanpour as Elite/successful Iranian, then Shirin Ebadi needs to be added to this list, since both women have many characteristics in common. For instance, Amanpour tells everyone she is British (which as far as I am concerned suits her well); Ebadi tells everyone she is a Moslem woman. They both hate Bush and badmouth the US; they both are more concerned about the Guantanamo prisoners than the ones in the regime’s jail. They both “believe” a reformist regime does exist in Iran, which could turn Iran into a “democracy”!!!….. I can go on more, but I think it speaks for itself. Both of these women are disgrace to be put on the same page as Khayyam, Jamshid Ghajar, Firouz Naderi, and others.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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With all due respect, to the choices of the “Elite Iranian” on this thread. I feel that if you are going to put Amanpour as Elite/successful Iranian, then Shirin Ebadi needs to be added to this list, since both women have many characteristics in common. For instance, Amanpour tells everyone she is British (which as far as I am concerned suits her well); Ebadi tells everyone she is a Moslem woman. They both hate Bush and badmouth the US; they both are more concerned about the Guantanamo prisoners than the ones in the regime’s jail. They both “believe” a reformist regime does exist in Iran, which could turn Iran into a “democracy”!!!….. I can go on more, but I think it speaks for itself. Both of these women are disgrace to be put on the same page as Khayyam, Jamshid Ghajar, Firouz Naderi, and others.


You have good points. In this thread added Iranian high achievers like Amanpour who we might not agree with them politically however they are well respected in the News Media. Ebadi is not considered as high achievers and also she is a traitor.
We might need a rule in this thread that we consider the Iranian Elites who have not been a traitor.
Please if you can prove that Amanpour is a traitor and she is against Free Iran then I should remove her immediately. Currently I don’t have enough data to support that she is a traitor.
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