Received the B.S.E.E. degree in 1959, M.S. degree in nuclear science in 1963 from the Technion, Haifa, Israel, and the Ph.D. E.E. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1967. He has been employed by the General Electric Company, Wolf R & D Corporation, and the Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute, Hartford Graduate Center. Since 1972 he has been with the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, first as an Associate Professor and since 1976 as a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He has been the Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ben Gurion from 1979 to 1983, a position which he also held during 1976-1977. He spent the 1977-1978 academic year p62 on sabbatical with the NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, as an NRC Senior Research Associate, and 1978-1979 with the University of Texas, Austin as a visiting professor of Electrical Engineering. During the fall of 1980 and the summer of 1981, he was a Visiting Professor with the Computer Science Division, of the University of California, Berkeley. He is coauthor (with B.C. Kuo) of the book, Optimal Control by Mathematical Programming(Prentice Hall, Russian translation,1975) and has published numerous papers in this area. He has published the books RISC Architecture (Wiley, NY, 1987, Italian translation,1989), RISC Systems (Wiley 1990, Japanese translation,1992). Multiprocessors (Prentice-Hall, 1990, French translation,1996), coauthored Engineering Applications of Stochastic Processes(R.S.P. U.K. and Wiley,1989), Advanced Microprocessors, McGraw Hill, 1991, second edition, 1996, Microcontrollers, McGraw Hill,1992 (with K.Hintz), and RISC Systems and Applications (RSP, UK and Wiley, NY, 1995). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and a director of Euromicro. His current research interests include computer architecture, microprocessors, and direct digital control. Dr. Tabak was a Professor of Computer Engineering at Boston University during 1983-1985. He joined GMU as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Fall 1985.
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