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Jerry Swartz
Founder, The Swartz Foundation
Chief Scientist Emeritus, Symbol Technologies
Former CEO, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Symbol Technologies
Adjunct Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Applied Math & Statistics
SUNY, Stony Brook
Web Sites:
http://www.theswartzfoundation.org |
Biography
Dr. Jerome Swartz co-founded Symbol Technologies, Inc., in 1975. He
served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Scientist until July 2003 and
held the title of Chief Executive Officer through most of his 28 years
with the Company. In 1999, he led Symbol to the National Medal of Technology,
the U. S.'s highest honor for technology innovation. The award was
presented to Dr. Swartz by President Clinton at the White House on
March 14, 2000. He retired from Symbol Technologies in June 2004 as
Chief Scientist Emeritus. He is a recognized expert in the allied
engineering physics fields of electro-optics, laser systems and optical
design, with particular application to new product development. He is
credited with more than 180 U.S. patents and is the author of some 30
published papers. He has taught electrical engineering at both
Polytechnic and City University of New York.
In 1994, Swartz established the non-profit Swartz Foundation for
Computational Neuroscience (www.theswartzfoundation.org), to explore
the application to neuroscience of mathematical physics and computer
engineering principles, as a path to better understand the brain/mind
relationship. The Foundation supports a number of initiatives including
five Sloan/Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology (California
Institute of Technology, University of California at San Francisco,
Brandeis University, New York University/Courant and the Salk
Institute) and Swartz Centers for Computational Neuroscience at the
University of California at San Diego, Cold Spring Harbor Labs and
Columbia University, which together form the nucleus of Foundation
research activities.
He received the IEEE Tech Island Award in 1990, the IEEE Wheeler Award in 1995, the IEEE Ernst Weber Leadership Award for career achievement in 1998, IEEE Third Millennium Medal for outstanding technical achievement in 2000, and first annual Eureka Award from the New York Academy of Sciences in 2001. In 1996, Swartz was named an IEEE Fellow and in 2000 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
He is a board member at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Stony Brook
University, and a trustee at the Polytechnic, where he was the 1990
recipient of the University Alumni of the Year Award. He is a member of the HKN, TBPi and Sigma Xi Honor Societies.
Dr. Swartz received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
from City University of New York and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering
from Brooklyn's Polytechnic University, where he was the recipient of
National Science Foundation and Ford Fellowships.
