Membership in Professional Association and Organizations:

Society for Technical Communication (STC);

Past President,Los Angeles Chapter STC's

Ambassador to the People's Republic of China International Technical Communication SIG,

Liason to China (ITC SIG)

Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)

American Translators Association (ATA)

The Jewish Federation's Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust/Martyrs Memorial

Friends of the Goethe-Institut, Los Angeles, California

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance (MOT)

Awards:

Who's Who Historical Society, International WHO'S WHO of Information Technology, 2000 Edition International

Writers' and Editors' Who's Who, Cambridge, England

Award for outstanding paper "Machine Translation -- Fact or Fiction", 27th International Technical Communication Conference (ITCC, Twin cities, 1980 USA)

Invited speaker/presenter/panel leader STC Region 7 and 8 Pan-Pacific Conference, Waikiki, Hawaii

Founding Conference of The Tech-Com Association of China, Beijing, PRC tekom Conference, Munich, Germany, 1998

Third World MT (Machine Translation) Summit, Washington, DC, 1991 ITCCs: 1980; 1990; 1995

International Technology Transfer and Knowledge Management Conference, Trier, Germany, 1980

Columns: "International Technical Communication" in the Journal of the Society for Technical Communication 'Technical Communication" and in the monthly STC magazine InterCom from 1982 to 1998.

Publications:

Journal contributions:

Contributions to TC Forum, The ata Chronicle (Journal of the American Translators Association),babel, Lebende Sprachen (German); International Journal of Translation, Official Organ of the International Federation of Translators, Tecnica e Industria (Spanish) The Society for Technical Communication, InterCom, The Los Angeles Technograph.

Papers: The World of Translation / Climates of Translation / Facts and Figures / United States of America: "Lebende Sprachen", Langenscheidt

Books: with the Assistance of UNESCO Books include: No Name, No Number - The Story of a Holocaust Survivor, self-published on demand; hardcopy and e-book version available. Book in progress

Fuehrer, wir folgen Dir nicht (pocketbook edition in German)

Videos: Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, interviewed by Robert Clary, survivor, English, 9/22/95,

Television: Interview 07124 HOLOKAUST, six segment documentation series of the German public television channel Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)interview conducted in Los Angeles, California, in German, April 1999

Movie: (in production) "No Name, No Number" << back