Ehud Shapiro
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Ehud Shapiro (born 1955) is an Israeli computer scientist. He received his Ph.D from Yale for his dissertation entitled "Algorithmic Program Debugging". He has been an exponent of the Prolog computer language and logic programming in general. In recent years, he has worked on developing a DNA-based computer. His research group produced one capable of diagnosing cancer in cells and releasing drug molecules in response. In the 2004 "Scientific American 50", he was named Research Leader in Nanotechnology.[1]
He works in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot since 1982.