Ehud Shapiro

Ehud Shapiro
Born1955 (1955)
Jerusalem, Israel
Alma materYale
Scientific career
InstitutionsWeizmann Institute of Science
Thesis Algorithmic Program Debugging  (1982)
Doctoral advisorDana Angluin[1]
Doctoral studentsAviv Regev

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 contributions to many scientific disciplines,[3] laying in each a long-term research agenda by asking a 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]

Shapiro was also an early internet entrepreneur,[11] and a 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]

  1. ^ Ehud Shapiro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~udi/ Ehud Shapiro at the Weizmann Institute
  3. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgS9myPsGUw From biomolecular computing to internet democracy | Ehud Shapiro at Davos World Economic Forum,
  4. ^ Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994. Conjectures and Refutations : the Growth of Scientific Knowledge. New York :Harper & Row, 19681965.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference inductive was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Muggleton, Stephen and De Raedt, Luc, Inductive logic programming: Theory and methods.The Journal of Logic Programming, 19, 629-679. Elsevier, 1994.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference debug was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Caballero, Rafael and Riesco, Adrian and Silva, Josep, A survey of algorithmic debugging. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 50, 4, 1-35. ACM New York, NY, USA, 2017.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference concurrent was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Shapiro, Ehud, The family of concurrent logic programming languages. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 21, 3, 413-510. ACM New York, NY, USA, 1989.
  11. ^ a b A Real Success Out of Virtual Places, WIS Wonder Wander, October 1, 1996
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference turing was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gil was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Condon, Anne, Automata make antisense. Nature, 429, 6990, 351-352. Nature Publishing Group UK London, 2004.
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference Frumkin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  16. ^ A 4D Human Atlas: Charting Human Development and Ageing in Health and in Disease
  17. ^ Callaway, Ewen and others, The trickiest family tree in biology. Nature, 547, 7661, 20-2022. Nature, 2017.
  18. ^ a b Shapiro, Ehud (2018). "Point: Foundations of e-democracy". Communications of the ACM. 61 (8): 31–34. arXiv:1710.02873. doi:10.1145/3213766. S2CID 215731619.
  19. ^ Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon, Foundations for Grassroots Democratic Metaverse. arXiv:2203.04090
  20. ^ Cite error: The named reference gdd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  21. ^ Schuler, Douglas, Counterpoint: e-democracy won't save democracy. democracy will save democracy. Communications of the ACM, 61, 8, 34-36. ACM New York, NY, USA, 2018.
  22. ^ a b Ehud Shapiro, A Grassroots Architecture to Supplant Global Digital Platforms by a Global Digital Democracy. arXiv:2404.13468
  23. ^ http://www.ba-rock.co.il/ The official website of Ba Rock
  24. ^ "The official website of "Democratit"".
  25. ^ Doctor in a cell | ERC
  26. ^ "Laying the Biological, Computational and Architectural Foundations for Human Cell Lineage Discovery".