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Authors’ Biographies
MARTIN LAND
MartinLand was born in Brooklyn in 1953. He grew up in the
New York City area, strongly influenced by his mother, a social
worker who worked with Holocaust survivors, and his father, a
second-generation engineer in small manufacturing businesses
associated with the garment industry. In his school years he
cleaned swimming pools and stables, worked as a carpenter on
a construction site, and expedited orders in the garment center.
In 1972, he entered Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where
he received a Kroll Fellowship for original research which per-
mitted him to devote an extra year to extensive study in the
humanities along with his specialization in physics. After com-
pleting his BA in 1977, he returned to New York City where
he received an M.S. in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1979 as a member of
the Eta Kappa Nu engineering honor society. He joined Bell Laboratories, developing special-
ized hardware for fiber optic communication with application in computer networks and video
transmission. In 1982, he worked as a telecommunications engineer at a major Wall Street bank.
Returning to theoretical physics at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he worked with Eliezer Ra-
binovicci on supersymmetric quantum mechanics to receive a second M.S. in 1986. In 1985, he
married Janet Baumgold, a feminist therapist and co-founder of the Counseling Center for
Women. Following a year devoted to full-time fatherhood and another in compulsory national
service, he began working toward a Ph.D. in high energy physics with Lawrence Horwitz at
Tel Aviv University in 1988. He elaborated many aspects of the classical and quantum theories
known as Stueckelberg-Horwitz-Piron (SHP) theory, producing a dissertation developing the
SHP quantum field theory. Concurrently with his doctoral work, he was on the research faculty
of the Computer Science Department at Hebrew University, developing specialized hardware
for parallel computing. After submitting his dissertation in 1995, he taught communications
engineering for three years at the Holon Institute of Technology, before joining the Depart-
ment of Computer Science at Hadassah College in Jerusalem, teaching computer architecture,
microprocessors, embedded systems, and computer networking. He was a founding member
of the International Association for Relativistic Dynamics (IARD) in 1998 and has served as
IARD president since 2006. In parallel to his activities in physics and computer science, he has
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