Anwar Chitayat. Anwar Chitayat (born August 21, 1927) is an Iraqi manufacturer that founded and was formerly CEO and chairman of Anorad Corp, a company which was acquired in 1998 by Rockwell Automation. His engineering work was recognized by SEMI in 2000. In 1997, Chitayat was awarded the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award by Ernst and Young, and was inducted to Long Island Hall of Fame in 2009 for his contributions to science and technology.

Chitayat's work is focused on linear motor technology and high performance positioning systems . Ford Motor Company held 10% shares at Anorad to promote their "Factory of the Future" with high velocity machine (HVM) tools, which was followed up by Chrysler.

Education
 B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, University of Denver.
 B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of Denver.
 M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering).

Anorad Corporation
Anwar founded the Anorad Corporation from his basement in Plainview, New York in 1972. Anorad is an acronym that stands for "Anwar's Own Research And Development".

Notable patents and discoveries

High speed with high precision manufacturing
Anwar's discoveries in linear motor technology and its high performance positioning systems applications attracted global interest from hundreds of industrial technology manufacturers, including Fortune 500 companies.

Nanotechnology and laser interferometers
Anwar held more than thirty patents in the field of measurement and manufacturing of very small components and geometries, including those as small as a nanometer. The small size required the development of new technologies using interferometry for measurement, nanopositioning motors, and stages. The interferometer manufactured and measured semiconductors by using the wavelength of light as a measuring stick. Length and angles were measured with small fractions of laser light waves.

Anwar was working on nanotechnology since the 1960s, when this kind of small devices had no practical value. Later on, they were needed for the manufacture of microprocessors and semiconductors, and now they serve as a basis of computers, phones and other electronic products.

Fiber optics
Anwar was awarded 4 patents for use of fiber optics for imaging, including techniques for image enhancement. One of these systems was used in the Apollo program to monitor the rocket engines. The optical lenses were placed in the environment of the rocket, and the fiber optics transmitted the images remotely to the human monitors and camera.

Satellite and star trackers
Anwar's first invention was a light modulating scanner, which enabled Kollsman Instruments to manufacture a star tracking system to be used in moonlit conditions, twilight, and daylight. This daylight star tracker was used to navigate airplanes and ships to determine their precise location, by using the latitude and longitude of the stars. This system is now obsolete due to the introduction of GPS.

Family life

Personal 
Anwar was born August 21, 1927 in Baghdad, Iraq, and was raised with six brothers and sisters in a low-income household. At 16, he obtained the highest score in Iraq's final exam given yearly to all high schoolers. He was awarded a scholarship to study Mechanical Engineering in the United States. He obtained simultaneous B.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Denver in 1951 and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1952, now New York University Tandon School of Engineering. In 1952, Anwar joined the U.S. Army for two years and was stationed in Alaska, servicing the U.S. DEW Line. Anwar became a U.S. citizen shortly after leaving the US Army.

Anwar was married three times. He has two daughters with his first wife Deanna: Mara and Aimee. Deanna Chitayat holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology and served as a Dean of Hofstra University.

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4.Chitayat, Anwar (May 18, 1998). "Linear Motors Come Into Their Own" Design News 
5.Chitayat, Anwar ( Volume 11, 1987) " Linear Motors Provide Fast and Precise Motion" official proceedings of the international motor conference 
6.Chitayat, Anwar (July 3–5, 1994). "Nanometer X-Y positioning states for scanning and stepping" Proceedings of the International Symposium on Manufacturing.
7.Chitayat, Anwar (March 6–12, 2009) "Long Island technology hall of fame" Long Island Business News.
8. Paul Schreiber (September 14, 1967) "Watching Over We The People" Newsday.
9. Brown, Stewart F (November 25, 1996) "The Fast New World Of Flat Motors" Fortune. 
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References 

Chief executives in the technology industry
Living people
1927 births
Iraqi Jews