Tech Roots Revealed in Israeli Historian’s Book, ‘The Network Effect’ Meir Valman traces the connections among prestate universities, military innovation, global experience, and life sciences that built Israel’s high-tech sector By Felice Friedson / The Media Line “Why does such a small country need such a large computer?” Albert Einstein’s question at a Princeton meeting […]
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Tech Roots Revealed in Israeli Historian’s Book, ‘The Network Effect’
Meir Valman traces the connections among prestate universities, military innovation, global experience, and life sciences that built Israel’s high-tech sector
By Felice Friedson / The Media Line
“Why does such a small country need such a large computer?”
Albert Einstein’s question at a Princeton meeting in the early 1950s drew laughter, but the decision behind it was no joke. The Weizmann Institute was being asked to spend roughly 20% of its budget to build a computer as part of an effort to recruit a Princeton mathematician, Chaim Pekeris, to Israel.
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