Naftali Tishby

Naftali Tishby
נפתלי תשבי
Tishby in 2008
Born(1952-12-28)28 December 1952
Jerusalem, Israel
Died9 August 2021(2021-08-09) (aged 68)
Jerusalem, Israel
NationalityIsraeli
EducationHebrew University Secondary School
Alma materTel-Aviv University
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Children4
AwardsIsrael Defense Prize
Landau Prize in Computer Science
Scientific career
Fieldscomputer science
mathematics
neurosciences
InstitutionsMIT
Bell Labs
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thesis Reduced Dynamical Description: An Information Theoretic Approach  (1985)

Naftali "Tali" Tishby (Hebrew: נפתלי תשבי; 28 December 1952 – 9 August 2021) was a professor of computer science and computational neuroscientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.