Saul Tannenbaum

Greater Boston Area United States

Member, Municipal Broadband Task Force at City of Cambridge

Writing / Publishing

My career in Information Technology started in high school where I maintained the Television Squad's inventory on punched cards and by wiring IBM data processing equipment plugboards. After a short stint at MIT, I went to work at the Boston University Medical School, providing computing support to scientists investigating "Type A" behavior and cardiovascular disease as well as the effects of stress on Air Traffic Controllers. In 1977, I did a geographic mashup, merging newly computerized Massachusetts death certificates with census data, demonstrating increased mortality in poor areas of the state, garnering Boston Globe headlines. At Tufts University, I created the Division of Scienti...