Naftali Tishby, known as Tali, was a professor of computer science and computational neuroscientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, born on 28 December 1952 and died on 9 August 2021. He graduated in mathematics and physics from the Hebrew University in 1974, took a master's degree in theoretical physics at Tel Aviv University in 1980 and completed his doctorate at the Hebrew University in 1985, followed by postdoctoral studies at MIT. From 1986 until 1991 he worked at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, and in 1992 he became a senior lecturer in computer science at the Hebrew University. He helped found its Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and the Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology, and he worked on the mathematical and statistical theory of learning and biological adaptation.
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Tishby was born in 1952.
Personal life and death
Tishby died on 9 August 2021 at the age of 68.
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He worked on the mathematical and statistical theory of learning and biological adaptation.
Early life and education, prize
That year he received the Israel Defense Prize.
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He worked on the mathematical and statistical theory of learning and biological adaptation.
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He worked on the mathematical and statistical theory of learning and biological adaptation.
Affiliated With: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Early life and education, MIT
He did his post-doctoral studies at MIT from 1985 to 1986.
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