Life Member, 77; died October 22

Schwartz served as IEEE Chief Financial Officer from 1993 to 2010. He touched on the lives of his colleagues in the organization, many of whom wrote condolences in response to his obituary.

After serving in the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army, which specializes in air assault operations. He enjoyed a career in business leadership that spanned four decades.

Schwartz, an avid New York Yankees and Jets fan, loved to play golf.

He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Iona University in New Rochelle, New York.

Vincent J. Mancino

Former Engineering Reliability Manager at RCA

Life senior member, 93; died September 24

For most of his career, Mancino worked as an engineer for RCA, headquartered in New York.

While serving in the US Army during the Korean War, he participated in the atomic bomb test in Nevada.

Mancino began his career at RCA in 1951 as an EMC engineer in Camden, New Jersey. He briefly left the company in 1961 to join Cornell Dubilier of New Bedford, Massachusetts as chief engineer in its filter division. He returned to RCA two years later as a senior engineer in Burlington, Massachusetts. There he was responsible for the design and development of computer-controlled automated test equipment.

He later moved to RCA’s astroelectronics division in Hightstown, New Jersey. As a senior engineer, he worked on meteorological and communications satellites for the US Air Force. He rose through the ranks and worked as an engineering reliability manager.

Mancino, a member of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2007.

He has volunteered for several non-profit organizations in his home state of New Jersey. He helped found the Monmouth County chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society and served as its first secretary. A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, he served as a finance officer at Sandy Hook and a flotilla commander at Monmouth Beach.

Mancino received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1951 from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Ten years later, he received a master’s degree in engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Joel Moses

Distinguished Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Life mate, 80 years old; died May 29

Moses taught electrical engineering and computer science at MIT for 50 years. He has held several senior positions at the institute and was named honorary professor of the institute in 1999. He was probably best known for developing Macsyma, the MIT project’s MAC symbolic manipulator. It was one of the first computer systems capable of processing complex mathematical expressions.

Moses received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1967 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He conducted his dissertation research under the guidance of IEEE Fellow Marvin Minsky, an artificial intelligence pioneer. Moses’ thesis laid the foundation for Macsyma.

He joined MIT in 1968 as an assistant professor of computer science and was a member of the school’s artificial intelligence laboratory (now the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), where he developed algorithms that could simplify and integrate mathematical expressions.

In 1970, Moses focused on the Macsyma, which was faster and more accurate than its predecessors. He led its development from 1971 until the release of the system in 1982.

“Problems in engineering or physics that would take six or seven months to solve could be solved by Macsyma in less than an hour,” Moses said. MIT News obituary. Now known as Maxima, it is one of the oldest general purpose computer algebra systems still in use.

In 1981, Moses was named head of the electrical engineering and computer science department. That same year, he launched a popular series called the Moses Seminar, in which faculty from every school at MIT discussed technology. This series led to the creation of a symposium aimed at building bridges between educators in the humanities, engineering, and science.

Later, as Dean of Engineering, Moses launched the Capital Engineering Program, a strategy for incorporating social science and management concepts into the engineering curriculum.

He also led the creation of the first five-year combined bachelor’s and master’s of engineering programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As rector, he worked to raise the salaries of researchers and teaching assistants, and tripled the funding for student associations.

Moses stepped down as provost in 1998, but remained a professor and remained active in MIT’s research and administrative programs.

In 2004, he founded the State Center for Computing, Information and Intellectual Sciences. It houses the university’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Information Systems and Decision Systems Laboratory, and the Faculty of Linguistics and Philosophy.

He also helped create the MIT Systems Engineering and Management Graduate Program, which prepares students for leadership positions in engineering companies.

He most recently served as Acting Director of the Systems Engineering Division at MIT. The group, which was disbanded in 2015, has focused on the development and management of large and complex systems such as global production and supply chains, multimodal transport systems, power distribution networks and healthcare systems.

Moses was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1986 for pioneering achievements in symbolic algebraic manipulation by computer and for outstanding leadership in engineering education.

He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from Columbia University.

Hiroshi Kondo

Former COO of Centellax

Comrade, 71; died January 15

Kondo served as chief operating officer for Centellax (now Microsemi), a semiconductor manufacturer in Aliso Viejo, California.

After receiving a Ph.D. After graduating in electrical engineering in 1984 from Cornell, Kondo joined HP as a project manager in Santa Rosa, California. He left in 1994 to join the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory in Tokyo as a senior researcher. There he worked on automotive radar and millimeter wave sensors.

In 2009, he joined Centellax as COO and led the marketing and production departments. When the company was acquired by Microsemi in 2014, he left to work as a consultant.

Kondo was a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society and advised the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan.

George J. Tahu Jr.

Sales Manager

Life member, 85; died January 6

Tahu worked for over 40 years as a sales engineer for HP and Agilent, an HP subsidiary, in Cedar Creek, Texas.

He served in the US Naval Air Systems Command Reserve Program for eight years before joining HP. Until his retirement in 2001, he specialized in test and measurement systems.

Tahu enjoyed spending time with his children, serving as leader of his son’s Boy Scout troop and filming his daughter’s figure skating competitions and dance performances. He was a longtime member of Canyon Creek Presbyterian Church in Richardson, Texas.

He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.