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Great minds: Life Story

Professor Haba

Professor Belgacem Haba is an Algerian scientist and inventor.

He was born in 1957 in El-Mighayer, a small town south Biskra. He

went to Amir Abdelkader High School in Touggourt before joining

the university of Bab Ezzouar in Algiers where he completed a

DES (Diplomate of High Education) in physics. Then he got a

scholarship to study in the USA at Stanford University. He did 2

master’s degrees and a PHD in solar energy. After graduating

from Stanford, he joined IBM’s research labs in New York

working on the application of lasers to microelectronics. After

that, he stayed in Japan for 6 years . he was working in the

application of laser technology to microelectronics while he was

living there. Then he returned the US and joined Tessera

company . they aimed at miniaturisation the mobile phones which

were big. And while he was working at that, he was working at

the miniaturisation of cameras.Then, he moved to a company

called Rumbus where he was designing and developing the game

“playstation two” and “three”

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