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

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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 unive ...

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

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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.

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 The Israel Prize ( he, פרס ישראל; ''pras israél'') is an award bestowed by the State of Israel, and regarded as the state's highest cultural honor. History The Israel Prize is awarded annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state cer ...

in mathematics and computer science. In 2019 he won the Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of computer vision.

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He is the co-founder of Orbotech and a former member of Israel's Council for Higher Education.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ullman, Shimon 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