YAHRZEIT OF MY FATHER 27 TAMMUZ

Melman, Israel J., 82, on July 7, 2002 .

He will be remembered for his good deeds. He was a giant among men. Of Tamarac, Florida, previously of Lexington, Ma. and New York. A pioneer in the many electronic developments of the 20th century. During WW2 he was a radar instructor at Yale and at Scott Field, Illinois, where he taught the new radar technology to officers and pilots. Following the war, he helped develop color television and was on the Federal Color Television Standards Commission. He was a senior member ofthe IEEE. In the fifties he worked with infrared technologies, crucial to the nascent space program and its satellite navigation systems. In the sixties he was instrumental in developing facsimile transmission technology. In the seventies and eighties he was a pioneer in information technologies and computer infomatics, later becoming the internet. He helped many technology entrepreneurs as their mentor and advisor. He was a man of few wasted words, placing a premium on strict ethics, rigorous thought, generosity and kindness. He was reared in the discipline of musar by his father, Rabbi Jacob Melman, z"l, a musmach of the Mir Yeshiva in Mir and a leader in the "pre-war" NY Jewish community, and who was also a personal friend of the Chafetz Chaim. He valued and loved his family.