Ida Holz
Uruguayan engineer and researcher
Ida Holz Bard (born 30 January 1935) is a Uruguayan engineer, computer scientist, professor, and researcher, known as a pioneer in the field of computing and the Internet.
Early life and education
Holz Bard was born on 30 January 1935, in the Palermo neighbourhood of Montevideo, to Galician Jewish immigrants Débora Bard and Isaac Holz. Her mother came from an Orthodox family and settled in Uruguay in the late 1920s; her maternal grandparents and maternal uncles were rabbis. Her father died when she was four years old, while her mother was eight months pregnant with her brother. Both of her parents had relatives who perished in the Holocaust.
She attended public schools and, during her adolescence, was involved in several Jewish associations in Montevideo, including HaNoar HaTzioni. At the age of seventeen, she moved to Israel, where she lived on a kibbutz and completed her military service. Four years later, she returned to Uruguay and began teacher training in mathematics at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas, later enrolling in a computing course at the University of the Republic. She belonged to one of the first cohorts of computer science students in Uruguay.
Career
In 1976, during the civic-military dictatorship in Uruguay, she went into exile in Mexico with her husband and children.
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