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MAX PALEVSKY, 85, (1925 - 2010) was the son of Polish Jewish immigrants, and grew up in Chicago during the Depression. During World War II, he served as an electronics officer in the Army Air Force, and graduated from the University of Chicago majoring in mathematics and philosophy. An expert in symbolic logic, he worked in the computer division of Bendix and for Packard Bell before launching Scientific Data Systems with 11 other scientists in 1961. He sold the Santa Monica-based company to Xerox in 1969. He went on to serve as a director and chairman of Xerox's executive committee before becoming a founder and director of Intel. He left the corporate world in the 1970s to produce movies, support Rolling Stone magazine and delve into politics.

From: Polish American Journal, August 2010, p. 17; Obituary compiled by Jennifer Moskal

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