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b. 1923
A UCLA researcher whose work bridged early physics computing, computer science, and CAD/CAM education, he wrote technical books and reports during a period when computing was rapidly reshaping research and industry.
Michel A. Melkanoff was a scholar and author associated with the University of California, Los Angeles. Reliable records connect him to both mathematics and computer science: the Mathematics Genealogy Project lists his Ph.D. at UCLA in 1955, with a dissertation in physics, and the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archives later place him at UCLA in connection with computer graphics and computer-aided design work.
His published work reflects that broad range of interests. The Online Books Page identifies him as the author of A Fortran Program for Elastic Scattering Analyses with the Nuclear Optical Model (1961), while SIGGRAPH records show him presenting and moderating "The Challenge of CAD/CAM Education" at SIGGRAPH 1982. Together, those sources suggest a career that moved from scientific computation into the emerging worlds of computing education and design technology.
Publicly available biographical detail appears to be limited, so this overview focuses on the parts that can be confirmed: his UCLA affiliation, his 1955 doctorate, and his contributions to technical literature and CAD/CAM discussions in the early 1980s.