Ehud Shapiro
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Ehud Shapiro (Hebrew: אהוד שפירא; born 1955) is an Israeli scientist, entrepreneur, artist, and political activist who is Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science.[2] With international reputation, he made fundamental contributions to many scientific disciplines,[3] laying in each a long-term research agenda by asking a novel basic question and offering a first step towards answering it, including how to computerize the process of scientific discovery, by providing an algorithmic interpretation to Karl Popper's methodology of conjectures and refutations;[4][5][6] how to automate program debugging, by algorithms for fault localization;[7][8] how to unify parallel, distributed, and systems programming with a high-level logic-based programming language;[9][10] how to use the metaverse as a foundation for social networking;[11] how to devise molecular computers that can function as smart programmable drugs;[12][13] [14] how to uncover the human cell lineage tree, via single-cell genomics;[15][16][17] how to support digital democracy, by devising an alternative architecture to the digital realm grassroots.[18][19][20][21][22]
Ehud Shapiro | |
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Born | 1955 (1955) Jerusalem, Israel |
Alma mater | Yale |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science |
Thesis | Algorithmic Program Debugging (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Dana Angluin[1] |
Doctoral students | Aviv Regev |
Shapiro was also an internet pioneer, entrepreneur,[11] and a pioneer and proponent of global digital democracy.[18][22]
Shapiro is the founder of the Ba Rock Band[23] and a founder of the Israeli political party "Democratit".[24] He is a winner of two ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grants.[25][26]