Joel Moses

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Joel Moses (1941 -) is an Israel-born American computer scientist.

Joel Moses was born in Israel in 1941 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1954. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Columbia University and a masters degree in Mathematics, also from Columbia. Under the supervision of Marvin Minsky, Moses received his doctorate in Mathematics at MIT in 1967 with a thesis Symbolic Integration. This laid the groundwork for the Macsyma symbolic mathematics program that was created at MIT under his supervision between 1969 and 1983. Macsyma was able to solve problems such as polynomial factorization, indefinite integrals, solution of differential equations, and other higher-order mathematical questions.

Moses served in several administrative positions at MIT between 1974 and 1998, including Provost, Dean of Engineering, Head of the EECS department, Associate Head of the EECS department, and associate director of the Laboratory for Computer Science. In December 2005 he was named Acting Director of the Engineering Systems Division at MIT.

Moses is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the IEEE, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Moses holds the rank of Institute Professor at MIT, a rank currently held by only 14 other professors at MIT.

Provosts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology v • d • e
Julius Stratton (1949-1952) • Charles Townes (1961-1966) • Jerome Wiesner (1966-1971) • Walter A. Rosenblith (1971-1980) • Francis E. Low (1980-1985) • John M. Deutch (1985-1990) • Mark Wrighton (1990-1995) • Joel Moses (1995-1998) • Robert A. Brown (1998-2005) • L. Rafael Reif (2005-