Jerome I. Elkind

Jerome Elkind is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. In 1988 he was co-founder of the Lexia Institute.

Elkind studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology gaining a first degree in 1951 and becoming a Doctor of Science in 1957. He went on to join BBN Technologies and participated for them in the 1960 Symposium on Principles of Self-Organization. He then was appointed head of the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (1971-8). Here he held budgetary responsibility for new projects. He also worked with Bob Taylor on the Xerox Alto. He went on to become Vice President of Systems Integration at Xerox.