Dr. Albert "Al" Macovski

The City College of New York had a wonderful faculty and a lot of resources to study engineering with. It was a very active liberal school and I made a lot of close friends there. My challenge there was mostly money; I had to work in the evenings in a liquor store. When I went from one semester to the next, I had to sell my books in order to buy new books. After graduation, I got a job at RCA Laboratories and I did quite well there. I then started my career in teaching and I became an assistant professor at the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute for three years. I then moved to Palo Alto, California, and worked for SRI International while I was studying for my PhD at Stanford. When I got my PhD, I spent one year in the NIH fellowship at UC San Francisco. Following this fellowship I obtained a faculty position at Stanford University as a professor of electrical engineering and radiology. I supervised a large group of PhD candidates. We worked on medical imaging using ultrasound, X-ray, CAT scanning, and MRI. That group is still active and is supervised by my former students. My wife Addie and I endowed a chair in biomedical engineering at Stanford.