Thursday, July 8, 2004
From the JAT-Action mailing list, comes this non-comprehensive list of Israel's accomplishments.:
1. The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
2. Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.
3. The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed, and produced in Israel.
4. The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in Israel.
5. Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
6. Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
7. The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
8. According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline industry's most impenetrable flight security. US officials now look to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.
9. Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
10. Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
11. Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
12. Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people -- as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
13. In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the second largest number of startup companies after the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
14. With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration hi-tech companies in the world -- apart from the Silicon Valley, US.
15. Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the US.
16. After the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.
17. Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East. The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK.
18. On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech startups.
19. Twenty-four percent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees -- ranking it third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland -- and 12% hold advanced degrees.
20. Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
21. In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at risk in Ethiopia to safety in Israel.
22. When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
23. When the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day -- and saved three victims from the rubble.
24. Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship -- and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world.
25. Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
26. Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
27. Israel has the world's second highest per capita rate of publishing new books.
28. Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because this was achieved in an area considered mainly desert.
29. Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
30. In the field of medicine, Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
31. An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in US hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.
32. Israel's Givun Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.
33. Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the heart's mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
34. Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the US, over 70 in Japan, and fewer than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions, Israel places first in this category as well.
35. A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct -- all without damaging surroundings skin or tissue.
36. An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant (in southern California's Mojave desert).
37. Israel did all of the above while engaged in regular wars with an implacable enemy that seeks its destruction and an economy continuously under stress by having to spend more per capita on its own protection than any other country on earth.
Lists like that make some people so jealous and feel so inadequate that all they can think of is ways to destroy.
Don't forget
Lempel and Ziv's compression algorithm.
keep it up, thank you !
Correction to #1,
LZW - Lempel Ziv WELCH algorithm.
I want to go to move to Israel!!
Sorry, but that is NOT true! As an Israeli who worked at Microsoft Israel I can tell you that it only very little parts of windows were developed in Israel! and these parts are more about server side like the MS proxy server. And you got lots of other facts wrong!!
I love Israel too, but it is important to spread the CORRECT facts!!
Here is another small achievement:
"The periodical of Tel Aviv University’s law faculty, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, has been ranked first among all law periodicals published outside the US by Washington and Lee University. The university considers more than 200 periodicals published in England, Canada, Australia, the European Union and other countries. "
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
#5 David
Not having any inside knowledge, Nappy takes your word for it about where which parts of Windows were developed, especially since you don't say which of the many flavors of Windows you have in mind: the DOS-based messes staring nearly 25 years ago (1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.1 Windows for Workgroups, 95, 98, ME) and the NT family (NT 3.1-3.5, 4.0, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista and the forthcoming Windows 7).At their headquarters in Redmond, WA, Bill Gates & Co. reverse-engineered lots of stuff from the Macintosh (and also benefited greatly from lessons learned on the Macintosh) and that Dave Cutler, formerly from DEC, where he'd headed up the design of the VMS operating system for the VAX-11, was the lead architect for NT. (One version of the etymology of NT is that Cutler coined the acronym WNT as an homage to HAL, the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. In any case, when the marketeers pushed "Windows NT" as "New Technology," the software industry bust their gut laughing out loud -- there was nothing new about it; M$ was just playing catch up to what had long been standard features for an OS. Later, Bill's red-faced minions announced that "NT" wasn't an acronym; the letters didn't stand for anything. The new OS's name was simply "NT.")
Lots of the reverse engineering and initial NT development took place in Redmond. There's the famous story of the time Cutler punched a hole in the wall of his office on learning of a design problem with NT. (And people call McCain hot-headed!)
Nappy agrees that it's important to not inflate or overstate Israel's achievements. It's a pretty substantial record on its own and doesn't need exaggeration to impress.
In that vein, Nappy takes exception to the claim about the CPU chips of all laptop computers in the 20th century. It's simply untrue. There were lots of laptops that did not use Intel chips designed in Israel, most notably Apple's PowerBooks. They used PowerPC chips from a consortium of IBM (designed PowerPC chips as a branch of the Power CPU family based on their 801 RISC design), Motorola (chip foundry that fabbed the chips) and Apple (designed, built and sold, or at least tried to sell, computers based on PowerPC chips.) And there were other laptops aimed at niche markets, e.g., laptop machines based on Sun's SPARC chips and running Solaris.