Shimon Ullman (שמעון אולמן, born January 28, 1948, in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
) is a professor of
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...
at the
Weizmann Institute of Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli univ ...
,
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
. 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 advised by
David Marr.
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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 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 was awarded the Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science.
In 2019 he won the Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of computer vision.[ Azriel Rosenfeld Award]
He is the co-founder of Orbotech and a former member of Israel's Council for Higher Education.
References
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1948 births
Living people
People from Jerusalem
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Israeli computer scientists
Weizmann Institute of Science faculty
Rumelhart Prize laureates
Israel Prize in mathematics recipients
Israel Prize in computer sciences recipients
Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society