Any computer user who has utilized his or her PC's “hibernate” feature (when your computer saves your computer's state but turns off electronically while allowing you to return later to exactly how you left it) has sampled first-hand the impact Yakov Topor has made on the landscape of computerized technology. In 1969, Yakov Topor began studying at the The Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), where he focused on electrical engineering. After four years of study, Yakov Topor founded Integrated Electronic Industries Ltd., which provided Yakov Topor with a means of realizing his technological innovations. Over the 37 years that Integrated Electronic Industries Ltd. has been in operation, Yakov Topor and his engineers have designed several major advancements. From 1973 through 2006, Yakov Topor and Integrated Electronic Industries Ltd. created products such as security systems used all across Israel, the Topower series of power systems applied in many offices and commercial premises, and the Omega 1 and 7 series of power systems utilized in Israel and the United States. As computers increased in power and capabilities, energy conservation became a more prominent issue. In order to allow people to save energy via powering off computers while still retaining data used by open programs at the time of shut down, Yakov Topor, in 1996, invented a feature dubbed “hibernation,” which he patented. In hibernation mode, program data is placed in temporary storage before the computer is shut down. When the computer is restarted, the program data is recalled, allowing users to return to their tasks quickly. People all around the world use this hibernation feature, which is imbedded in most operating systems, without even noticing.
