found: Wikipedia, March 20, 2024(Rodnay Zaks; born 10 February 1946 in Paris., France; French-born American author of many books on computer programming, including the seminal Programming the Z80 and Programming the 6502; he is the founder of independent computer book publisher Sybex and was its president and chief executive officer (CEO) until its takeover by John Wiley & Sons in May 2005; Zaks has an engineering degree from the École Centrale Paris and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also was the third person to receive a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the then new computer science department; he began a career in training engineers and managers in the then new microprocessor technology, and subsequently founded Sybex in 1976; Zaks has been a director of Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture (SIGMICRO), and founded the non-profit organization EUROMICRO)
