 | William: Born William Aziz Hanna on Feb 1st, 1947 in Cairo Egypt to Aziz Hanna Bischay and Sanieh Rizk-allah Makar originally from the Village of Nag Rezik, Assiut Governrate |
| Attended Primary School at the American Evangelical School in Qullaly. Continued at Coptic Primary School in Bullack, |
| Attended Tawfekiah High School in Shoubra, Cairo, Egypt. Graduated in the top 100 of the country in 1962 |
| Attended Cairo University, School of Engineering (1962-1967) and Graduated with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Communications Branch |
| Became an Instructor in the Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in August, 1967 |
| Studied Pure Mathematics while teaching Engineering Mechanics and Graduated with a Degree in Mathematics from the College of Sciences in July 1969. |
| Came to the USA on July 26, 1969 and started immediately in the Summer program as a Graduate Student in Electrical Engineering and mathematics. Graduate in June 1971 with an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics |
| Attended Montana State University on a full scholarship when Iowa State was not able to offer me financial assistance to continue in the EE Ph.D. I already had completed most of the course work for a Ph.D. (First Lesson in Funding Limitations in America, to see it repeat over and over again!) |
| Graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in June 1974. And a great opportunity to live in the Wild West for 3 years. I also made many friends for life. It is amazing how nice people are in these remote parts of the world. Montana is 1/2 the size of Egypt, the population of Montana was ~700,000 in 1971 |
| Through well established contacts between MSU and HP, I was fortunate to get a job at HP in Loveland, Colorado where the desktop computer was invented in the early 19070's |
| We were married in Egypt on August 7, 1973. It took a whole year to get Laila out of Egypt because of the '73 war with Israel, she was drafted into the Army as a Medical Officer |
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