Named a life member of the American Physical Society, Simon Berkovich was also awarded the title of senior research fellow by the Russian Academy of Sciences.
ROCKVILLE, MD, November 13, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Simon Berkovich, PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Berkovich celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Berkovich, a retired educator and computer scientist who also has extensive expertise as a physicist and mathematician, has contributed more than three decades to the sciences. Most notably, he is a recognized emeritus professor of engineering and applied science in the department of computer science at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who devoted 35 years to academia between 1980 and 2015. Teaching various courses and supervising students' research in algorithms, data structures, computer organization and information systems, he also oversaw the dissertations of 40 doctoral students while on campus. In addition to his career in education, Dr. Berkovich was a senior member of the technical staff for Allied-Bendix Aerospace Technical Center in Columbia, Maryland, between 1982 and 1994. While conducting scientific research in computer communication systems during his tenure with Allied-Bendix, he also invented two new communication techniques: content-induced transaction overlap protocol and combinatorial interconnections for object-oriented systems.
Born in Moscow, Russia, Dr. Berkovich first worked as a chief project leader for the Scientific Center for Microelectronics between 1966 and 1968. Relocating to the United States in 1979, he began teaching as a visiting associate professor at the University of Maryland in College Park. Just a year later, Dr. Berkovich accepted the opportunity to teach at the George Washington University, where he remained until retirement.
Maintaining an interest in algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, computer organization, cellular automaton modeling of fundamental physics and biological information processing, as well as energy and sustainability problems and the philosophy of science, Dr. Berkovich has more than 30 patents in computer science and electronics. Sixteen of these patents were issued in Russia, with 14 being issued in the United States. He has also received several research grants for his work from such organizations as the National Science Foundation and the Systems Engineering Research Center.
Dr. Berkovich's research has resulted in the contribution of over 100 articles in various peer-reviewed journals. He has authored several other publications during his career as well, including "On the Barcode: Interpretation of DNA or the Phenomenon of Life in the Physical Universe," published by Dorrance Publishing Company in Pittsburgh in 2003, and "Cellular Automata as a Model of Reality: Search for New Representations of Physical and Informational Processes" by Moscow University Press in 1993.
In 2002, he became an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences "for an outstanding contribution to computer science and the development of fundamental computational algorithms." Named a life member of the American Physical Society, Dr. Berkovich was also awarded the title of senior research fellow by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The recipient of a 1983 Bendix Advanced Technology Center Award for Best Invention of the Last 12 Months and winner of the George Washington University Technology Transfer Innovation Competition in 2014. He has also been highlighted in the 21st edition of Who's Who in the East. Dr. Berkovich earned a Master of Science in applied physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1960 (Department Chair: Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Nobel Prize 1978), a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering in Russia in 1964 and later completed postdoctoral studies at the V.A Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 1975.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Dr. Berkovich has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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