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Honors, Recognitions and Grants
Honors and Recognitions
- Plenary talk: "Understanding Complex Systems" Urbana Champaign 2005, 2006, 2007
- Invited by publisher (Routledge): Cover Page Review for the book Philosophy and Computing by Luciano Floridi [1999]
- Plenary opening talk: "IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks", Washington D.C [1996]
- The Alon Fellowship of Excellence of the Israeli National Committee for Higher Education (full salary and all expenses) [1994-1997]
- Rutgers Doctoral Fellowship of Excellence [1990, 1991]
- State of Israel Best undergraduate medal [1984]
- Artist Certificate in Piano from the Rubin Conservatory [1982]
Recognition in Media and Books
- National public Radio, Medical Breakthroughs, United Press International, and more, describing my work on Jetlag Sept 2006 [more details here]
- PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 670 January 22, 2004 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and James Riordon chose to describe my work on Gene Networks and computation [more details here]
- EE-Times (November 1998) 4 page article was devoted to reporting my work on Analog computing [more details here]
- The book "Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction" Floridi, 1999, describes my work and implications
- The famous book by Simon Haykin "Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation" 1998, describes my three theorems as foundations of the neural network field
- Daily Telegraph (May 5th, 1995, p. 16) - on Super-Turing
- Inside R&D (May 17, 1995, Vol. 24, No. 20, p.7). on Neural Networks
- American Scientist "The Science of Computing: Genetic Algorithm" (Jan-Feb 1992, p.12- 14) by Peter Denning describes my research on multi-valued genetic algorithms and their practical use in distributed information systems
Grants
- Center of Complexity, Israel: fellowship of excellence for senior investigator: 9/2007-9/2010
- ONR "Memory Reconsolidation in Computational Modeling" (solo) 10/ 2006-9/2008
- NSF "Evolutionary and Adaptive Multi-cellular Agent "PI (solo) 10/2005
- NSF/NIH CRCNS "system biology of circadian rhythm", PI (with Eric Bittman, Chris Hollot, Yossi Chait, Mary Harrington) 10/2004
- Israeli National Consortium on Digital Printing: "Recognition and Clustering of Faults in One-time Printing". PI, (solo from academia, with Elbit Vision Systems) for 3 years 1998
- Israeli Ministry of Arts and Sciences "Intelligent-Adaptive Methods for the Location and Caching of Documents in the World Wide Web", 1998-1999. PI, (w/ David Horn, Eytan Domany)
- Bi-national US-Israel Science Foundation "Analog Computation: From Neural Networks to Chaos", 1996-1998. PI (with James Yorke of U. of Maryland)
- Israeli Ministry of Arts and Sciences "Neural Programming Language: Development and Applications", 1995-1997. PI (with Tamar Flash)
- Alon fellowship of excellence 1995-1997
Institutional Grants for Overseas Visits and Collaborations
- Program on Symbolic Computation and Real Complexity (F. Cucker), Mathematical Science Research Institute, Berkeley: Summer 1998
- The National Research Council of Italy/Israel: Visit to work with Prof. Marco Gori, Faculty of Engineering, University of Siena: 1997-1998
- Program on Neural Networks and Machine Learning (C.M. Bishop), The Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University: Summer 1997
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