Shimon Ullman
Israeli computer scientist
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| Intro | Israeli computer scientist | |
| Places | Israel | |
| is | Computer scientist | |
| Work field | Technology Science | |
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| Birth | 28 January 1948 | |
| Age | 76 years |
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Biography
Shimon Ullman (שמעון אולמן, born January 28, 1948 in Jerusalem) is a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Ullman's main research area is the study of vision processing by both humans and machines. Specifically, he focuses on object and facial recognition, and has made a number of key insights in this field, including with Christof Koch the idea of a visual
saliency map in the mammalian visual system to regulate selective spatial attention.
Education
He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977, and was David Marr’s first Ph.D. student.
Research
He is the author of several books on the topic of vision, including High-level vision: Object recognition and visual cognition.
Ullman is the former head of the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute.
Awards and honours
Ullman was awarded the 2008 recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Theoretical Contributions to Cognitive Science. In 2014 he received the EMET prize in the field of computer science for his contributions to AI and computer vision.
In 2015 Ullman will be awarded Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science.
He is the co-founder of Orbotech and a former member of Israel's Council for Higher Education.