The theme of the future time dimension artificial intelligence is the research and development of the field of AI, heralding a new era for humanity and the promise of extraordinary progress. Prof. Shashua is the founder of Mobileye, and Prof. Hasbis founded DeepMind and is a general artificial intelligence researcher * Prof. Shashua said that he will donate the prize money to scholarships for doctoral students in the field of AI
Prof. Ariel Porat, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Dan David Prize and President of Tel Aviv University and Prof. Itamar Rabinovitch, Chairman of the Dan David Foundation, announced this evening the winners of the prize awarded for the 19th year. The prize will be awarded in a festive ceremony on the 17th of May.
The Dan David Award, founded by the Israeli businessman and international philanthropist Dan David who passed away 9 years ago, is a prestigious international award in collaboration with Tel Aviv University awarded in Israel to people who have demonstrated unique excellence and made an extraordinary contribution to humanity, in the fields of science, spirit and art in the three dimensions of time : past, present and future. The winners will be awarded cash prizes with a total value of 3 million dollars.
Among the winners: two who are both researchers and pioneering entrepreneurs in the field of artificial intelligence were announced this evening about winning the Dan David Prize for the future time dimension. The winners are the founder of Mobileye, Prof. Amnon Shashua, and the developer of the Alpha Go software, Prof. Demis Hasbis.
Prof. Amnon Shashua, Prof. Amnon Shashua, founder and CEO of the company "Mobilay", "Orcam Technologies", senior vice president at Intel Global and professor of computer science at the Hebrew University. The award is given to him for his unique contribution to the research and development of breakthrough computer vision and artificial intelligence technologies, including systems that help drivers in real time to avoid accidents, autonomous driving technologies, and innovative technologies that help improve the lives of the blind, visually impaired and hard of hearing. These technologies demonstrate to the world how the power of artificial intelligence can be harnessed to reduce traffic accidents, save human lives, and improve the lives of people with disabilities.
Demis Hasbis, founder of DeepMind, the world's leading company in artificial intelligence research and neuroscience researcher at the University of Cambridge. The company, which was founded with the aim of developing "general artificial intelligence", i.e. artificial intelligence that has "intelligence", recognition and self-awareness, developed the AlphaGo and AlphaZer software, which beats any human player in strategy games without needing to learn from previous games played by people at all - but intelligence Her learning is based on games against herself. Recently, the company began to enter the medical world with developments in the field of medical imaging analysis, last January it managed to develop a system for diagnosing breast cancer from mammogram scans, with greater accuracy than the doctors' interpretation. It also develops the AlphaFold system whose purpose is to solve the three-dimensional - spatial structure of proteins. The award is given to him for the extraordinary achievements of the company, which is a prominent example of the benefit that artificial intelligence promises to the human race.
According to the prize procedure, inspired by the success story of the late Dan David, who started his way in the business world thanks to a generous entrepreneur, 10% of the prize money will be awarded to 20 scholarships intended for young researchers in the doctoral and post-doctoral stages in Israel and abroad. The names of this year's scholarship winners will be announced next month.
Shashua is a global expert in the fields of computer vision and computational learning, has published over 120 articles in the fields of artificial intelligence and holds more than 45 patents in the field. The prize is awarded for the development of artificial intelligence technologies that change the face of society and the economy - including the development of advanced driver safety systems that help prevent accidents and save lives, research and development of autonomous driving technologies, as well as the development of artificial vision technologies that help improve the lives of the blind, visually impaired, hard of hearing and people with More disabilities around the world.
Prof. Shashu's response
In response to the announcement of the winners, Prof. Shashua said: "I am proud to win the prestigious award in the future category of the AI field - It is a great honor to be named with the distinguished list of winners, which includes experts from all over the world. The ability of artificial intelligence and computer learning technologies to be a solution to a variety of challenges faced by humanity has always led me and the award is an excellent opportunity to increase awareness of the promises that advanced technologies such as these hold."
Shashu added that he will donate the winning money to doctoral studies in the field of AI.
This is the sixth Israeli out of the 114 winners of the award over the years, and the only one to win the prestigious award this year, which places entertainment in a place of special honor, together with world-renowned winners, whose contribution constitutes a significant contribution to excellence and humanity in general. Among the past winners of the Dan David Prize: Amos Oz, Marvin Minsky, Michael Rabin, Al Gore, Intel founder Gordon Moore, Tony Blair, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wells, AB Yehoshua, Zubin Mehta and more.
Past and present dimensions - preservation of cultures and gender equality
In the dimension of past time - culture: preservation and revival: preservation of cultures as a means of promoting social ideas. Lonnie Bunch and Prof. Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblatt won this award. Lonnie Bunch is a researcher, historian, secretary of the Smithsonian National Institute and founder of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington. Prof. Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblatt, is a world-renowned Jewish researcher and consultant to many Jewish museums around the world.
In the present time dimension, the chosen topic is gender equality: the promotion of the ongoing struggle for gender equality, which led to one of the most significant social transformations in humanity and has not yet ended. Prof. Deborah Diniz from Brazil and Prof. Geeta Sen from India won this award.
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to Mr. D.H.
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to D.H.
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Remember the saying:
"The lazy person does not learn - and the diligent person does not teach".
Dear Mr. Yedan
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