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Shimon Ullman

Who

Shimon Ullman · Technology & Engineering

What

Israeli pioneer of computational vision (Weizmann Institute); Rumelhart Prize (2008)

When

1948, Jerusalem, Israel

Where

Israel (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot) · United States (MIT)

Biography

Shimon Ullman is recognized among Israeli contributors to Technology & Engineering — Israeli pioneer of computational vision (Weizmann Institute); Rumelhart Prize (2008)

How & why

Shimon Ullman is an Israeli computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and a pioneer of computational vision, developing influential theories of how humans and machines recognize objects, including work with Christof Koch on the visual saliency map. He received the David E. Rumelhart Prize in 2008 and the Israel Prize in 2015. He is Israeli and Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Rumelhart Prize

Contributions & Sources

Israeli pioneer of computational vision (Weizmann Institute); Rumelhart Prize (2008)

2008

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Rumelhart Prize