Ari Rappoport

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Ari Rappoport (1962 – June 23, 2025) was a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the last 15 years of his life, he expanded his research to neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry, where he developed theories about brain activity, disorders, and diseases. He was born and raised in Jerusalem, the son of Zvi Rappoport, a chemistry professor. He studied in elementary and high school at the Hebrew Gymnasium Rehavia and graduated in 1980. He did his military service in Unit 8200. From 1985 to 1987 he completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral dissertation, supervised by Lawrence Rudolph, entitled "Data Structures and Algorithms for Computational Graphics and Geometric Sampling", was done at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1987–1990. In 1991, he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's School of Computer Science, and eventually became a full professor. In 2010, together with doctoral students Oren Tzur and Dmitry Davidov, he developed an algorithm for identifying sarcasm, which was one of the 50 greatest inventions of 2010 according to Time magazine. In 2025, his book The Science of the Brain: Function, Dysfunction and Disease was published by Elsevier.