40 THE BIG FIX. 30% off repairs on NEWS GOLD and SILVER jewelry. JULY 1 to JULY 31 BRUCE WEISS ( 13, DINCNI:1)11:\XTI RY 26325 Twelve Mile Road Southfield, Michigan 48034 in the Mayfair Shops at Northwestern (313) 353-1424 Jerusalem College of Technology Prof. George Mendelbaum demonstrated his new "user friendly" system for controlling robots at the recent convention on CAD/CAM and robotics in Tel Aviv. Robot Control Made Easy By Israel Prof's Method No matter how you turn the globe - The Jewish News keeps you posted on Jewish happenings everywhere! Call 354-6060 TODAY and order your subscription. • 22 Friday, July 18, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS • I Jerusalem — Two years of re- search and development at the Jerusalem College of Technology have resulted in what Prof. George Mendelbaum, head of the industrial programming sec- tion of JCT's department of computer technology, calls "a breakthrough' that makes con- trolling robots easy enough for a child to do." Until now special engineers have been required to operate robots; these engineers have had to understand how to program computers and how to "speak" computer language in order to manipulate the robot. Industrial programmers around the world have been searching for methods of making the complex computer language easier to "speak." Prof. Mendelbaum's depart- ment at JCT has succeeded in replacing the language with a graphic depiction which does not require trained personnel to understand. "Scientists in the U.S. and Japan are integrating graphics into computer technology," says Prof. Mendelbaum. "We have succeeded in putting the picture of a robot on a computer screen and getting the real robot to move when we move the picture. Moving the robot is therefore as easy as moving the picture." Prof. Mendelbaum notes that this breakthrough will minimize the need for specialized engineers to program and re- program robots, and thus will result in major savings for in- dustry. Prof. Mendelbaum was direc- tor of computer technology at the University of Paris for two decades, until making aliyah two years ago. This school year concludes the second year of re- search by the 25 JCT students currently operating under his tutelage. The system they have de- veloped, which makes computers "more user-friendly than every before," according to Prof. Men- delbaum, is currently fitted to the MacIntosh computer and Eshed robot. The college will formally unveil its developments at the Association for Computer Machinery Conference on Small Systems in San Francisco in De- cember.