Harold Seymour "Hal" Goldberg EE'44

Harold Seymour “Hal” Goldberg EE'44, 98, of St. Louis, MO, and formerly of Lantana, Florida, Boynton Beach, Florida, Bedford, MA and Lexington, MA, passed away on July 17, 2023 surrounded by his loving family.

Hal was born on January 22, 1925, in New York. He was a graduate of Cooper Union (BEE) and, according to Who's Who, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (MEE). Hal began his career as a design engineer, developing both military and commercial instrumentation. He then directed engineering groups at Dumont Laboratories and at Emerson Radio. He was chief engineer of Consolidated Avionics in New York and at EPSCO in Cambridge, Massachusetts and co-founding vice president of Lexington Instruments, Waltham, Massachusetts, developing medical monitoring instrumentation. At the Avco Research Laboratories, he designed the electronics of the Cardiac Assist Balloon Pumping System. Mr. Goldberg managed Orion Research for several years and then co-founded Data Precision Corporation in 1971, serving as its president until 1982. In 1978, it merged with Analogic Corp. In 1984, Mr. Goldberg left a post as Vice-President of Analogic to help found Acrosystems Corporation, leading the company as president until 1988. In 1988, he was Associate Dean of the Gordon Institute of Tufts University until his retirement.

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