In 1985, he co-founded Advanced Systems Design Group which built hardware for the Commodore Amiga.
In 1987, Kivolowitz invented the recoverable ram drive[1] In 1995 this company sold to Avid Technology, Inc.[2] In 1996 he received an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for the invention of shape-driven warping and morphing as exemplified in the Avid Elastic Reality package once in widespread use.
[6] In January 2018, Kivolowitz was made Chair[7] of the Computer Science Department at Carthage College.
Kivolowitz lectured for AT&T and Bell Labs in the early 1980s on Unix Internals and debugging primarily at an AT&T facility in Piscataway New Jersey but also across the country.
[9] Kivolowitz authored an early paper on file systems for write-once media presented at the 1984 USENIX conference in Salt Lake City.