Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli professor of electrical engineering at technion”. Today it says “israeli professor of electrical engineering and entrepreneur”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Israeli professor of electrical engineering Israel Cidon ( Hebrew : ישראל צידון ) is an Israeli professor of electrical engineering and entrepreneur. In 2023, he was appointed as the director of the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech . He served as a faculty member and later as Dean at the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology . In addition to his academic roles, Cidon has co-founded several technology companies, including Micronet Ltd., Actona Technology, Viola Networks, and Sookasa. Cidon also worked at VMware Research , where he was Vice President and a researcher in high-performance networking technologies. Throughout his career, Cidon has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers and holds 65 U.S. patents.
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Israel Cidon is an Israeli professor of electrical engineering at Technion . He is an author of more than 220 books and peer-reviewed articles all of which were cited more than 6905 times and were published in such journals as International Journal of Digital & Analog Cabled Systems and the Journal of Systems Architecture among others.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Israeli professor of electrical engineering Israel Cidon is an Israeli professor of electrical engineering at Technion . He is an author of more than 220 books and peer-reviewed articles all of which were cited more than 6905 times and were published in such journals as International Journal of Digital & Analog Cabled Systems and the Journal of Systems Architecture among others.
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israeli professor of electrical engineering at technion
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israeli professor of electrical engineering and entrepreneur
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