Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, and was David Marr’s first Doctor of Philosophy student.
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Shimon Ullman
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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. 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.
Achievements
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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 Artificial Intelligence 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.
Awards
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Israel Prize; Rumelhart Prize
The Israel Prize (Hebrew: פרס ישראל) is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is generally regarded as the state's highest honor.The Israel Prize (Hebrew: פרס ישראל) is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is generally regarded as the state's highest honor.