Oded Kafri

Oded Kafri is an Israeli author, entrepreneur, and scientist. He wrote three books in Optical Metrology, Entropy, and the effect of the second law of thermodynamics on the Economy. He served as a senior scientist and group leader at the Nuclear Research Center-Negev in Israel. He is the author of about 150 scientific publications, among them two pioneering papers on "Visual Cryptography" and "Moiré Deflectometry", and holds numerous patents applied around the world. Dr. Kafri received several international awards, including the CeBIT Highlights Award in 1994. He also founded three Hi-Tec companies. His book, Entropy: God's Dice Game, is a scientific explanation of why life and human behavior is an outcome of the propensity of entropy to increase. Biography Dr. Kafri was born in Tel-Aviv in 1944 and raised in Hadera. He received his D.Sc. from the Technion IIT in 1973 for his research on short laser pulses. In 1976 he joined as a senior scientist to the Nuclear Research Center in Israel where he established a laboratory for optical metrology. In 1981 he invented the Moiré Deflectometry, which is a moiré effect based shearing interferometer suitable for low accuracy optical measurements. Based on this invention He founded “Rotlex Ltd” in 1987 which manufactures optical measuring instruments until today. In 1987 he invented the random grids which were first utilized by him for “Visual encryption” and later for printing binary data on papers (which is the basis of the two-dimensional barcode). For this invention he received several international awards among them is the CeBIT Highlights award for best software utility of 1994. In 1996 he founded Veritas Technology Solutions Ltd., which developed software utilities. He received a patent for delivering secret information in an encrypted file by email or in a site. The delivered file can be opened only if the receiver key in a secret code is known to the addressee. This invention is commonly used around the world. Later, Veritas Technology, now named Varicom Communications Ltd., manufactured unified messaging platforms for carriers. In 2013 Dr. Kafri retired and he is now an independent scientist applying the second law of thermodynamics to probability and economy. Dr. Kafri has shown that the Zipf’s law exists in the classical regime of the Blackbody radiation, namely, in Planck law. Books Kafri, O. and Glatt, I. “The Physics of Moire Metrology” John Wiley and Son. (1990). Kafri, O. and Kafri, H. “Entropy - God’s dice game”. CreateSpace-Amazon. (2013). http://www.entropy-book.com. Kafri, O. “Money, Physics, and Distributive Justice”, CreateSpace-Amazon. (2018). Kafri, O. “Entropy” ksp library. (2018). Awards: 1. 1987 – Israel inventors award for the invention of the deflectometer. 2. 1988 – Photonic circle of Excellence Award for OMS-400 (Deflectometer) – in intrernational convention in Optronics in Santa-Clara. 3. 1993 – The 2th prize of all inventions in 21 Salon International des Inventions, Geneve, 1993, for Fax-O-File (random grid). 4. 1994 – "The most innovative product" award at the 1993 CeBit show in Germany (random Grid). Website: http://www.entropy-book.com/