Ehud Shapiro is a multi-disciplinary scientist, artist, entrepreneur and Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
23 Facts About Ehud Shapiro
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Ehud Shapiro is the founder of the Ba Rock Band and conceived its original artistic program.
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Ehud Shapiro is a winner of two ERC Advanced Grants.
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Ehud Shapiro's work had a decisive influence on the strategic direction of the Japanese national project, and he cooperated closely with the project throughout its 10-years duration.
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In 1993, Ehud Shapiro took leave of absence from his tenured position at Weizmann to found Ubique Ltd.
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Ehud Shapiro attempted to build a computer from biological molecules, guided by a vision of "A Doctor in a Cell": A biomolecular computer that operates inside the living body, programmed with medical knowledge to diagnose diseases and produce the requisite drugs.
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In 2004, Ehud Shapiro designed an effective method of synthesizing error-free DNA molecules from error-prone building blocks.
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In 2011, Ehud Shapiro founded the CADMAD consortium: The CADMAD technological platform aims to deliver a revolution in DNA processing analogous to the revolution text editing underwent with the introduction of electronic text editors.
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In 2005, Ehud Shapiro presented a vision of the next grand challenge in Human biology: To uncover the Human cell lineage tree.
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Ehud Shapiro laid the theoretical foundation for inductive logic programming and built its first implementation : a Prolog program that inductively inferred logic programs from positive and negative examples.
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Ehud Shapiro implemented the method of algorithmic debugging in Prolog for the debugging of logic programs.
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In 1982, during a visit to the ICOT, Ehud Shapiro invented Concurrent Prolog, a novel concurrent programming language that integrated logic programming and concurrent programming.
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Ehud Shapiro described the language in a Report marked as ICOT Technical Report 003, which presented a Concurrent Prolog interpreter written in Prolog.
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In 1993, Ehud Shapiro took a leave of absence from the Weizmann Institute to found and serve as CEO of Ubique Ltd.
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Ehud Shapiro believed that computer science could provide the much-needed abstraction for biomolecular systems.
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Ehud Shapiro developed Abstract computer languages for the specification and study of systems of interacting computations, in order to represent biomolecular systems, including regulatory, metabolic and signalling pathways, as well as multicellular processes such as immune responses.
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Ehud Shapiro's team aims to make these computers perform highly complex actions and answer complicated questions, following a logical model first proposed by Aristotle over 2000 years ago.
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Ehud Shapiro designed an effective method of synthesizing error-free DNA molecules from error-prone building blocks.
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Ehud Shapiro founded the CADMAD consortium, which aims to deliver a revolution in DNA processing analogous to the revolution text editing underwent with the introduction of electronic text editors.
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In 2005, Ehud Shapiro presented a vision of the next grand challenge in Human biology: To uncover the Human cell lineage Tree.
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Ehud Shapiro's lab has developed a proof-of-concept multidisciplinary method and system for cell lineage analysis from somatic mutations.
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Ehud Shapiro initiated in 2012 and led the "open party" project within the Public Knowledge Workshop, which aimed to provide foundations for the operation of an e-party espousing direct democracy via the internet.
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Ehud Shapiro further extended his concepts of e-democracy in his Davos 2016 WEF lecture and Financial Times Opinion article.