36 Facts About Max Palevsky

Max Palevsky was an American art collector, venture capitalist, philanthropist, and computer technology pioneer.

Max Palevsky was then sent to New Guinea, which was the Air Force's central base for electronics in the South Pacific.

Max Palevsky did graduate work in philosophy at UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago.

Max Palevsky began working in the computer industry in 1951 for $100 a week building computers at Northrop Aircraft, building copies of the MADIDDA, a special-purpose computer intended to solve differential equations.

Max Palevsky worked to build copies of Steele's invention between March 1950 and January 1951.

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Two years after Max Palevsky joined Northrop, the division was sold to Bendix Corporation.

Max Palevsky worked at Bendix from 1952 to 1956 designing digital differential analyzers as a project engineer, working on the logic design for the company's first computer.

Max Palevsky worked on the DA-1 differential analyzer option, which connected to the G-15 and resulted in a machine similar to the MADDIDA, using the G-15 to re-wire the inputs to the analyzer instead of the custom drums and wiring of the earlier machine.

In March 1957, Max Palevsky went on to work at Packard Bell Corporation, at a new affiliate of the company that he started, called Packard Bell Computer Corp.

Max Palevsky was vice president and director of the new division.

Max Palevsky convinced the company that they should enter the computer business and helped develop the first silicon computer, which became the PB 250, which was modestly successful.

Max Palevsky gave many lectures during this period, including at the second international meeting on analog computation at Strasbourg, France, in September 1958.

Max Palevsky felt that ten percent of the market of small to medium size scientific and process control computers was being totally neglected.

Max Palevsky started looking for venture capital to start a company to address this market, and through contacts from the University of Chicago was able to raise $1 million from Arthur Rock and the Rosenwald family of the Sears Roebuck fortune.

Max Palevsky left Packard Bell with eleven associates from the computer division to found Scientific Data Systems of California in September 1961.

Max Palevsky sold SDS to Xerox in May 1969 for $920 million, with Arthur Rock's assistance, at which time he became a director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Xerox Corporation.

In 1972 Max Palevsky donated $319,000 to George McGovern, and in 1973 he managed Tom Bradley's first successful campaign for mayor of Los Angeles.

Max Palevsky made numerous friends and allies on the California political scene, including former governor Gray Davis, and was elected to serve on Common Cause's National Governing Board in 1973.

Max Palevsky raised funds in 2007 to help Barack Obama with the 2008 United States presidential election.

Max Palevsky became a director along with Arthur Rock, who helped bankroll SDS, at the company's founding, on July 18,1968, as NM Electronics Corporation, a name later changed to Intel.

Max Palevsky became a director and chairman of Rolling Stone, which he rescued from financial ruin in 1970 by buying a substantial share of the stock.

Max Palevsky went into independent production with Peter Bart, former production vice president of Paramount Pictures in November 1973, with a Paramount contract to produce six features in three years.

In June 1977, Max Palevsky was elected to the board of the American Ballet Theater.

Max Palevsky served as a director and Chairman of the Board of Silicon Systems Inc of Tustin, California, from April 1983 until February 1984; as chairman and chief executive of the board of Daisy Systems Corporation, a maker of computer systems used to design electronic circuits based in Mountain View, California; and, from November 1984 to 1999, as a director of Komag Corp.

Max Palevsky collected art, particularly Japanese woodblock prints, and gave generously to establish and maintain institutions of visual art.

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Max Palevsky established the Palevsky Design Pavilion at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Max Palevsky funded the American Cinematheque's refurbishment of the Aero Theater in Santa Monica.

Max Palevsky served as a trustee at his alma mater from 1972 to 1982.

Max Palevsky established the Palevsky Professorship in History and Civilization in 1972 and the Palevsky Faculty Fund in 1996.

In 2000, Max Palevsky donated $20 million to his alma mater to enhance residential life.

Max Palevsky was married to his first wife, Mary Joan Yates, from 1952 to 1968.

Max Palevsky owned homes notable for their architecture, furniture, and art collections.

Three California Houses: The Homes of Max Palevsky featured architecture and design by Ettore Sottsass of the Memphis group, Craig Ellwood, George Washington Smith, and Coy Howard.

In 1985 and 1988, Max Palevsky was named to the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans.

Max Palevsky's estimated worth for those years was $600 million and $640 million.

Max Palevsky died at the age of 85 of heart failure on May 5,2010, at his home in Beverly Hills, California.