W3C Office   Israel W3C Office

The Israel W3C Office is situated at the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI).

Photograph of the campus HUJI is Israel's oldest and most prestigious academic institution founded in 1925, with a board that included Einstein, Buber and many more great intellectuals. Its CSE School was started in 1969 in the Math Department and developed in a world class research institution. It was a pioneer in the old internet and in open software usage, running the first e-mail service in 1980, after installing Unix in 1976. Its students have a strong impact on the local industry, being the CEOs, founders or CTOs of many world internet companies.

Photograph of Michel The office is headed by Prof M. Bercovier who also runs the Visual Graphics/Cad lab at the School. He has also a strong record of involvment with the software industry (founding chairman of ExLibris/Aleph among others).