Jerome I. Elkind

Jerome I. Elkind
Other names	Jerry Elkind
Known for	Computer science
Spouse(s)	Linda v. Elkind

Academic background
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Influences	J. C. R. Licklider
Academic work

Jerome Elkind is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. In 1988 he was co-founder of the Lexia Institute.

Elkind studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology gaining a first degree in 1951 and becoming a Doctor of Science in 1957. He went on to join BBN Technologies and participated for them in the 1960 Symposium on Principles of Self-Organization. He then was appointed head of the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (1971-8). Here he held budgetary responsibility for new projects. He also worked with Bob Taylor on the Xerox Alto. He went on to become Vice President of Systems Integration at Xerox.