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Prof.
Martin Patt was born in Medford, Massachusetts and was raised nearby in a working class
neighborhood in Malden,
just a stone’s throw from the original Converse Rubber Company factory on Pearl Street. As a boy, he helped in his father’s
business, Patt’s Variety Store, where he rubbed elbows
daily with factory workers and their families. This produced an abiding respect for the
workingman who was struggling to support his family and make ends meet. Later in life, Prof. Patt founded the Patt
Special Fund, a philanthropic entity that he set up to honor his parents,
Abraham and Sarah Patt A”H, through charitable giving.
At
the University of Mass in Lowell,
over a span of four decades, Prof. Patt taught a variety of graduate and
undergraduate subjects in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and
Mathematics. He contributed to the
creation of UMASS-Lowell's Introduction to Engineering - Basic Computer
Skills Course and authored the classic Freshman Computer Skills Manual.
 Prof. Patt's research was devoted to the development of
independent learning tools for use with very large classes supported by
minimum staff. Other research
interests included Application-Based Computer Language Efficiency, Processing
of Large Data Streams, and the Empirical Development of Aircraft Antennas and
Antenna Arrays.
Upon
retiring from UML, Prof. Patt redirected his energy to engage in a number of
interests with passion, one of which was the creation and maintenance of more
than a few educational websites that serve as resources for college students
and others who are investigating such topics as Poverty, Torture by Authorities, and Human Trafficking in their
respective countries. These and other
content-packed sites focus on such problems, country-by-country, with the
intention of contributing to their solution by encouraging broad-scale
awareness through education.
Prof.
Patt has contributed to the welfare of local Jewish day schools, high schools
and colleges in Greater Boston. He is
a member of the Heritage Society of the Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus
Life, the Sachar Legacy Society of Brandeis University and the Katharine
Dexter McCormick Society of M.I.T. He
has served on the Board of Directors of Congregation Beth Israel of Malden
and on the Board of Trustees of its BIM Ruderman
Fund…For many years he worked actively as part of the Malden Chevra Kadisha.
Prof.
Patt is a graduate of Northeastern
University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi Societies. He is devoted to his family, to his
friends, and to the success of his students, past and present, and still
looks forward to a time when men will look beyond their self-interests, and
will support one another and live in peace.
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