Jacob Rubinovitz

Jacob Rubinovitz was born in 1947 in Łódź

Rubinovitz was born in Łódź, Poland, on September 6, 1947, to Mordechai and Elka. In 1957 he moved to Israel as part of the Gomułka aliyah.

He earned a degree in industrial engineering and management at the Technion. He later completed a doctorate at Pennsylvania State University in 1987 and stayed there for a year as a visiting professor.

From 1969 to 1973 he worked as a systems analyst at Mamram and at Control Data Israel. From 1973 to 1983 he led an industrial software team, first at Israel Aerospace Industries. He installed industrial management software in countries including South Africa, the Netherlands, the United States and Australia.

In 1988 he joined the Technion's Industrial Engineering and Management faculty, where he founded and headed the robotics and CIM laboratory. He published books and papers on robotic assembly lines and manufacturing, taught at Tel Aviv University in 2003 and 2004, and served on a Ministry of Education curriculum committee.

He took early retirement from the Technion in 2005 because of illness. In 2012 he was guest of honor at the 17th National Industrial Engineering and Management Conference. He was married to Nurit, had three children, and died on April 27, 2018.