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Michael Elad

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “professor of computer science at the technion - israel institute of technology”. Today it says “israeli computer scientist”.
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Michael Elad ( Hebrew : מיכאל אלעד ; born December 10, 1963) is an Israeli computer scientist, a professor of Computer Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology . His work includes contributions in the fields of sparse representations and generative AI , and deployment of these ideas to algorithms and applications in signal processing , image processing and machine learning .

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “professor of computer science at the technion - israel institute of technology”. Today it says “israeli computer scientist”. Read the current article and compare.
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professor of computer science at the technion - israel institute of technology

Now

israeli computer scientist

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