Shimon Ullman

Shimon Ullman, 2014

Shimon Ullman (born January 28, 1948 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli cognitive scientist and computer scientist.

Ullman studied mathematics, physics and biology at the Hebrew University from 1970, graduating in 1973 and received his doctorate in 1977 with David Marr at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (The Interpretation of Visual Motion). In 1981 he became an associate professor at MIT, where he was MIT professor from 1986 to 1993. In addition, from 1981 to 1985 he was Associate Professor at the Weizmann Institute , where he has been Professor of Computer Science since 1993. There he is Head of the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Samy and Ruth Cohn Professor of Computer Science . He is also an adjunct professor at MIT (Brain and Cognitive Science Department).

As a cognitive scientist, he deals with the visual perception and recognition of objects, which he also researches in the context of AI (computer vision).

With Christof Koch , he developed the Saliency Map in the mid-1980s, which summarizes local facets of a visual scene that are selected for attention.

In 2008 he received the David E. Rumelhart Prize , in 2014 the EMET Prize and in 2015 the Israel Prize . He is a member of the Israel Academy of Science and the Humanities and, since 2016, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He is a co-founder of Orbotech .

Fonts

The Interpretation of Visual Motion, MIT Press, 1979 (Russian translation 1984)
High-level vision: Object recognition and visual cognition, MIT Press 1996
with Christof Koch: Shifts in Selective Visual Attention: Towards the Underlying Neural Circuitry, Human Neurobiology, Volume 4, 1985, pp. 219-227

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Ullman, Shimon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Israeli computer scientist and cognitive scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jerusalem

[1] Shimon Ullman in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)

[2] Ernst Niebuhr, Saliency map , Scholarpedia