Ike Nassi | |
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.jpg) Ike Nassi (on the right). | |
| Born | Isaac Nassi February 24, 1949[1] Brooklyn,New York City,New York |
Isaac Robert "Ike" Nassi (born 1949 inBrooklyn,New York) is the founder, and former CTO and chairman at TidalScale, Inc. before its acquisition byHPE,[2] and an adjunct professor of computer science at theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz.[3] He is known for creating (withBen Shneiderman) the highly influentialNassi–Shneiderman diagram notation.[4] He also helped design theAda programming language.
Ike is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and a Senior Life Member of ACM.
Ike is a graduate ofBrooklyn Technical High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics, a master's degree and doctorate inComputer Science fromStony Brook University, New York, in 1974.[5]
Ike was formerly EVP and Chief Scientist atSAP AG, and the practice lead of theSAP Research Technology Infrastructure practice, which was focused on guiding SAP's technology infrastructure vision, direction, and execution. His group was also responsible for the SAP Sponsored Academic Research Program.[6]
Prior to his work at TidalScale and SAP, Ike helped start three companies: Firetide, InfoGear Technology, andEncore Computer. He co-founded the wireless mesh companyFiretide[7] and then served as its EVP, chief technology officer (CTO), and chairman of the board. Ike was the CTO and head of product operations atInfoGear prior to its acquisition byCisco Systems. He helped startEncore Computer, a pioneer in symmetric multiprocessors and forerunner of today's multicore processors.
In addition to his start-up experience, Ike held an executive position at Cisco Systems following its acquisition of InfoGear Technology. He joinedApple Inc.[8] to run the newAdvanced Technology Group research lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts near MIT, work on theDylan programming language intended for theApple Newton, become VP of Development Tools in California, become SVP of Software, launchMkLinux, and become a Corporate Officer. He served on the boards ofTaligent and theOpenDoc Foundation. He also held executive and senior management roles at Visual Technology (Tewkesbury, Massachusetts),Digital Equipment Corporation, and atSofTech.
Ike serves as an active member of the board of trustees of theComputer History Museum in Mountain View, California,[9] and formerly served on the board of theAnita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. He is a member of the Industry Advisory Board of theIEEE Computer Society,[10] and member of the Advisory Boards ofNorthwestern University,Stony Brook University, andPeking University.[11] He has been a visiting scholar atStanford University andU.C. Berkeley, and was most recently a visiting scientist atMIT. Nassi holds several patents and He was a member of theDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Information Systems and Technology group and has testified before Congress on the Emerging Telecommunications Act of 1991.
Ike was awarded a Certificate for Distinguished Service in 1983 from theDepartment of Defense for his work on the design of the Ada programming language.[12]
