I am professor and founding dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at IDC Herzliya, a new Israeli university which I helped found in 1995. I was also a tenured professor at NYU (1985-1995) and a visiting professor at Harvard (2005) and Stanford (2012). Together with Noam Nisan I developed an open-source approach for teaching applied computer science which is described in a bestselling MIT Press book. Courses based on the approach are taught in traditional universities as well as in many self-organized courses over the web. I am chairman of the Computer Science Education committee in the Israeli Ministry of Education, and I enjoy developing innovative courses and open source software to promote free web-based science education. My second life passion is mountain biking: I am a certified MTB instructor, and during the last decade I rode more than 30,000 km in five continents. My professional and personal interests converge in several courses on exploration, innovation, and leadership that I teach at IDC.
Here is a video clip that I shot in a recent ride in the Judea Desert. Make it full screen and full volume, and be prepared for total immersion!
