Shelia Guberman

Shelia Guberman, born 25 February 1930, Ukraine, USSR, son of Aizik Guberman (writer, poet) and his wife Etya (teacher). Scientist in Computer Science, Nuclear Physics, Geology, Geophysics, Medicine, Artificial Intelligence and Perception. He proposed the D-waves theory of Earth seismicity, algorithms of Gestalt-perception (1980) and Image segmentation, and programs for the technology of oil and gas fields exploration (1985).

1947-1952 Guberman studied at the Institute of Electrical Communications, Odessa, USSR, graduating in Radio Engineering. 1952–1958 he worked as Field Geophysicist in the Soviet oil industry. 1958–1961 he studied as a post graduate at the Oil and Gas Institute in Moscow. In 1962 he received a PhD. in Nuclear Physics, followed by a PhD. in Applied Mathematics in 1971. In 1971 he was appointed for Full Professorship in Computer Science.

After authoring the first applied pattern recognition program in 1962, Guberman specialized in Artificial Intelligence implementing principles of Gestalt perception in computer programs for geological data analysis, Earthquake prediction, oil and gas exploration, handwriting recognition technology, speech compression, and Medical imaging. From 1989 to 1992 Guberman held the Chair Professorship at Moscow Open University (Department of Geography). Since 1992 he is living in the USA. Guberman is the inventor of the handwriting recognition technology used today by Microsoft in Windows CE. He is author of core technologies for five US companies, and owns a patent on speech compression.

1966–1991 Chief scientist, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics , Moscow (Russia)

1989–1992: Chaired Professorship, Russian Open University (Moscow), Department of Geography.

1989–1997 Chief Scientist, ParaGraph International, Campbell, CA, USA

1995–1996 Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA

1998–2007 Founder & CEO, Digital Oil Technologies, Cupertino, CA, USA

More than 180 papers published in scientific journals in Russia, USA, France, Germany, Italy and Austria.

Selected recent papers on Computer Science and Psychology:

- 2015: "On Gestalt Theory Principles", Gestalt Theory, 37(1), 25 - 44.

- 2012 (with Vadim V. Maximov and Alex Pashintsev): "Gestalt and Image Understanding", Gestalt Theory, 34(2), 143 - 166.

- 2013: Critical review of Desolneux, Moisan & Morel (2008): From Gestalt Theory to Image Analysis. In: Gestalt Theory 35(2), 183-206.

- 2008: What is «self-organization»? A journey of a small child. 7th Congress of the UES Systems Science European Union Lisbon, Dec. 17-19, 2008.

- 2004: “Reflections on Ludwig Bertalanffy’s “General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications”. Gestalt Theory, 26(1), 45 – 57.

- 2002: “Clustering Analysis as a Gestalt Problem.” Gestalt Theory, 24(2), 143 – 158.

- 2001: “Reflections on M. Wertheimer`s "Productive Thinking": Lesson to Artificial Intelligence. Gestalt Theory, 23(2).

Selected paper on Tectonophysics:

- 1972: Guberman, Sh. (1972), Criteria of high seismicity determined by pattern recognition., USA: Tectonophysics, pp. 415–422 v.13 

Books:

- 1987: “Non-formal data analysis in geology and geophysics”, Nedra, Moscow.

- 1962: “Theory of similarity and interpretation of nuclear well-log date”, Nedra, Moscow.

- 2007: with Gianfranco Minati “Dialogue about Systems”, Polimetrica, Italy. ISBN 978-8876990618

- 2009: "Unorthodox Geology and Geophysics. Oil, Ores and Earthquakes", Polimetrica, Italy. ISBN 978-8876991356

• E.M.Kudryavtsev, E.F.Maklyaev, S.D.Zotov and A.A.Lebedev (2009), Comparison of Hypothetical D-Waves of Planetary Scale, Causing Earthquakes in Sh.A.Guberman’s Model, with Slow Solitary Elastic Waves (SSEWs) Detected Experimentally, Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute, V36, Issue 9, 277–281.  CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)

• Joel N. Shurkin (1994), Thoroughly Electronic Russian, San Jose Mercury News West Magazine, pp. 8–12.