| Other Names: | Jerry Elkind |
| Education: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology[1] |
| Spouse: | Linda Valenstein |
| Known For: | Computer science |
| Influences: | J. C. R. Licklider[2] |
Jerome Elkind is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. In 1988 he was co-founder of the Lexia Institute.
Elkind was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning his undergraduate degree in 1951 and Sc.D. in 1957.[3] He went on to join BBN Technologies and participated for them in the 1960 Symposium on Principles of Self-Organization.[4] He then was appointed head of the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (1971-8).[5] [6] Here he held budgetary responsibility for new projects.[2] He also worked with Bob Taylor on the Xerox Alto. He went on to become Vice President of Systems Integration at Xerox.[5]
In 1959, he married engineer Linda Starr Valenstein, daughter of advertising executive Lawrence Valenstein in a Jewish ceremony in Scarsdale.[7]