Shelia Guberman

Shelia Guberman Born 25 February 1930, Ukraine USSR He is son of Aizik Guberman(writer, poet) and his wife Etya ( teacher). Scientist in Computer Science, Nuclear Physics, Geology, Geophysics, Medicine, Artificial Intelligence and Perception. The author of the first applied pattern recognition program (1962), the D-waves theory of Earth seismicity (1975), the algorithms of gestalt-perception (1980), the technology of giant oil and gas fields exploration (1985), the handwriting recognition technology (1993).

Education

1947-1952 Institute of Electrical Communications, Odessa, USSR. Graduated with Degree in Radio Engineering.

1958–1961 Post graduate student, Oil and Gas Institute, Moscow, Russia

Received PhD. in Nuclear Physics – 1962.

Received PhD in Applied Mathematics -1971.

Received Full Professorship in Computer Science – 1971

Positions

1952–1958 Field Geophysicist in oil industry (Russia) 1958–1966 Senior scientist, Oil and Gas Institute, Moscow (Russia) 1966–1991 Chief scientist, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow 1991–1994: Chaired Professorship, Russian Open University (Moscow), Department of Geography. 1989–1997 Chief Scientist. ParaGraph International, Campbell, CA,. USA 1985–1986 Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1998–2007 Founder & CEO, Digital Oil Technologies, Cupertino, CA, USA

Developed the handwriting recognition technology, speech and images compression, 3-dimensional shapes recognition.

Fields of research: Artificial Intelligence; Data analysis; Pattern recognition; Image processing; Medical diagnosis; Earthquake prediction; Hydrocarbon exploration; Gestalt psychology.

Publications: More than 180 papers published in scientific journals in Russia, USA, France, Germany.

Some recent papers on Computer Science and Psychology:

- “From pattern recognition to image understanding”, Gestalt Theory, v.34/2, 2012.

- “Reflections on Ludwig Bertalanfy’s “General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications”. Gestalt Theory, V 26, No 1, 2004, p. 45 – 57.

- “Clustering Analysis as a Gestalt Problem.” Gestalt Theory, V 24, No 2, 2002, p. 143 – 158.

- “Reflections on M. Wertheimer`s "Productive Thinking": Lesson to Artificial Intelligence. Gestalt Theory, V 23, No 2, 2001

Guberman, Sh. (1972), Criteria of high seismicity determined by pattern recognition., USA: Tectonophysics, pp. 415–422 v.13

Books

“Non-formal data analysis in geology and geophysics”, Nedra, Moscow, 1987

“Theory of similarity and interpretation of nuclear well-log date”, Nedra, Moscow, 1962.

“Dialogue about Systems”, Polimetrica, Italy 2007 with Gianfranco Minati

Guberman, Shelia (2009), Unorthodox Geology and Geophysics. Oil, Ores and Earthquakes, Italy: Polimetrica

References

• E.M.Kudryavtsev, E.F.Maklyaev, S.D.Zotov and A.A.Lebedev (2009), Comparison of Hypothetical D-Waves of Planetary Scale, Causing Eartquakes in Sh.A.Guberman’s Model, with Slow Solitary Elastic Waves (SSEWs) Detected Experimentally, Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute

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• Joel N. Shurkin (1994), Thoroughly Electronic Russian, San Jose Mercury News West Magazine

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