Dov Moran Receives the Prestigious Technology Award from the German Eduard Rhein Foundation for the Development of the “Disk-On-Key”

Donated the money granted with the award, which is considered “the Nobel Prize of computing and technology”, to the Technion; the first Israeli to win the award was Prof. Jacob Ziv of the Technion, who won it for his development of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm; GPS developer Bradford Parkinson won the award alongside Dov Moran

In the festive ceremony, which was held in the beginning of the week at the Deutsche Museum in Munich, Dov Moran said: “I am proud to represent here my friends in the Israeli hi-tech. The disk-on-key (commonly known as the USB flash drive) was born as a result of a problem. My computer stopped working before an important presentation and I promised myself never to be in a situation where I do not have a copy in my pocket. And this is how this invention came to be. But it is important to understand that things do not advance on their own accord. Anyone can invent. All you need is to open your eyes and see what people need. But the road from understanding the need to the creation of a product is long and strewn with difficulties. It requires the necessary knowledge, which I received from the Technion, and the ability to survive this constant battle of the “birth” of a product. Worth it? Definitely!”

Above: Dov Moran at the awarding ceremony. Photo: Technion Spokesman, courtesy of the Rhein Foundation