Amnon Shashua
1960 – present
Amnon Shashua is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur, a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who works on computer vision and machine learning. He co-founded Mobileye, a maker of camera-based driver-assistance systems acquired by Intel in 2017, as well as the assistive-technology company OrCam and the language-model company AI21 Labs.
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Life events
He studied computer science at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis PhD work at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory concerned computer vision.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe became a member of the school of computer science and engineering.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe company developed a single-camera system for detecting vehicles and obstacles for driver assistance.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgOrCam builds wearable camera devices that read text and recognise faces for blind and visually impaired users.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe initial public offering was among the largest by an Israeli company at the time.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIntel bought the company and ran it as a subsidiary led by Shashua.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe started the natural-language processing company with Yoav Shoham and Ori Goshen.
Source: en.wikipedia.org