Salim AbiEzzi is from the city of Zahle, capital of the Bekaa Lebanon, where he attended the Secondary Evangelical School. In May 1980 he completed the Baccalaureate 2nd part with Math concentration at Brumana High School.

 

In August 1980 at age 17 Salim arrived to the Boston area for university education and lived in the US ever since. In June 1992 he received the US citizenship at a ceremony in San Francisco City Hall, where people from 48 countries were present, and the awarding judge encouraged recipients to bring richness from their unique cultures to their new nation! In December 1995 Salim married Laurie Peterson of Centerville Utah, they have three children and have lived in Sammamish WA since November 2002.

 

In May 1982 Salim completed his Bachelor of Science degree, summa cum laude, in Computer Science at the University of Mass, Lowell. The department Director, Prof. Thomas Costello, granted him an award for Superior Academic Achievements in Computer Science. He continued with his Computer Science concentration at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY, with a graduate assistantship, and was subsequently awarded a Masters and a Ph.D. in May 1984 and 1989, respectively. His Doctorate was in 3D graphics at the Center for Interactive Computer Graphics under Prof. Michael Wozny.

 

Salim served as Director of R&D in IoT, ML & Graphics at VMware, Lead Program Manager in Graphics & Networking at Microsoft, Senior Engineering Manager for Advanced Graphics & Multimedia at Sun Microsystems, and Research Scientist for Interactive 3D Graphics at RPI. He led advanced development teams at RPI, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. Salim gave numerous presentations at International conferences including: a keynote at the Cloud Security Summit, Fog World Congress, Microsoft’s PDC and WinHEC, Siggraph & Eurographics.

 

Salim's direct experience includes active participation in standards committees, including his leadership role in launching the UPnP Forum in October 1999 for device interoperability, and chairing its steering committee for four years while growing it to a successful international organization. Salim's first committee meeting was ANSI 3D graphics at Carmel California in Oct 1984, and his last was Industrial Internet Consortium at Sydney Australia in November 2019. Salim's last three years at VMware involved representing the company in IoT & ML organizations including the IIC, EdgeX Foundry, AECC & international standards committees (SC41 & 42).

 

Salim's corporate engagement ended in March 2020 at age 57, after a 36 year career. He spends his time now enjoying:

  •  rich family life, including care for his special daughter & octogenarian parents

  •  love of travel & the outdoors; for photos, check Salim's FB page/photos/albums

  •  intellectual curiosity; philosophy, science & technology, now for pure fun!

  •  family wealth management

Salim's patents, publications, recommendations & LinkedIn profile.

 

Trophies, letters from his grandfather, memorabilia: school - SES photos & SES yearbooks; scout life - photos & Cadmus magazine.

 

Also, Ferial on Salim in English (text, video) and Arabic (text, video).

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