Shimon Ullman
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel F1000 Faculty Member (since 09 July 2001)BIOGRAPHY
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:• Samy and Ruth Cohn Professor of Computer Science, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
• Head, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
EDUCATION:
• 1973 BSc, Mathematics, Physics and Biology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1973-1977 MA, PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA
AWARDS:
2008 David E Rumelhart Prize in human cognition
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My general area of research is the study of vision – including the processing of visual information by the human visual system, and computer vision. The goals of this research are to understand how our own visual system operates, and how to construct artificial systems with visual capabilities including, for example, aids for the visually impaired.
HOME PAGE
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~shimon/
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