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Turing Award to the Institute’s Prof. Shafi Goldwasser
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on March 13, 2013 Prof. Shafi Goldwasser, who is at both the Weizmann Institute and MIT, will receive the 2012 A.M. Turing Award, together with Prof. Silvio Micali of MIT. Goldwasser is only the third woman to receive the Award since its inception in 1966, and she is the third faculty member of the Weizmann Institute to receive what…
A Computer That Learns to See Like a Baby
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on November 18, 2012 The idea of “seeing the world through the eyes of a child” takes on new meaning when the observer is a computer. Institute scientists in the Lab for Vision and Robotics Research took their computer right back to babyhood and used it to ask how infants first learn to identify objects in their visual field.…
Knowing the Score on Relationships
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on March 5, 2012 What would you say are the strongest three factors associated with the salaries of major-league baseball players? According to a popular, well-established algorithm, the main influential factors are walks, intentional walks and runs batted in. How much does he earn? But a paper recently published in Science reports on a new data analysis tool, which…
A Picture Worth 500 Words (or Less)
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on January 16, 2012 YEDA Research and Development Company LTD., the commercial arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, today announced it has entered into a license agreement with Adobe Systems Incorporated related to a bidirectional similarity measure to summarize visual data. Here are some examples: Before: After: For more information, see our press release or Prof. Irani’s website.
No Need for Decryption
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on December 15, 2011 Is it possible to perform operations on encrypted data, while keeping it secure from all prying eyes (or circuits), even if that data is stored remotely, in the “cloud?” Will our end result still be encrypted, and when we decode it with our private decryption key, will our result be correct? To put it another…