Nathan Netanyahu

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title: "Nathan Netanyahu" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1951-births", "israeli-computer-scientists", "israeli-people-of-polish-jewish-descent", "researchers-in-geometric-algorithms", "academic-staff-of-bar-ilan-university", "university-of-maryland,-college-park-alumni", "technion-–-israel-institute-of-technology-alumni", "living-people", "netanyahu-family", "hebrew-reali-school-alumni"] description: "Israeli computer scientist (born 1951)" topic_path: "technology/algorithms" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Netanyahu" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Israeli computer scientist (born 1951) ::

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Field	Value
name	Nathan S. Netanyahu
native_name	נָתָן נְתַנְיָהוּ
native_name_lang	he
birth_date
fields	Computer science
workplaces	Bar-Ilan University
alma_mater	University of Maryland, College Park (PhD)
doctoral_advisor	David Mount, Azriel Rosenfeld
known_for	Nearest neighbor search, k-means clustering, computer chess, image registration
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| name = Nathan S. Netanyahu | native_name = נָתָן נְתַנְיָהוּ | native_name_lang = he | image = | birth_date = | fields = Computer science | workplaces = Bar-Ilan University | alma_mater = University of Maryland, College Park (PhD) | doctoral_advisor = David Mount, Azriel Rosenfeld | known_for = Nearest neighbor search, k-means clustering, computer chess, image registration Nathan S. Netanyahu (; born 28 November 1951) is an Israeli computer scientist and a professor of computer science at Bar-Ilan University.

Netanyahu is the son of mathematician Elisha Netanyahu and Supreme Court of Israel justice Shoshana Netanyahu, the nephew of historian Benzion Netanyahu, and the cousin of current Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. He did his graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, earning a Ph.D. in 1992 under the supervision of David Mount and Azriel Rosenfeld.

Netanyahu has co-authored highly cited research papers on nearest neighbor search{{citation | last1 = Arya | first1 = Sunil | last2 = Mount | first2 = David M. | author2-link = David Mount | last3 = Netanyahu | first3 = Nathan S. | last4 = Silverman | first4 = Ruth | author4-link = Ruth Silverman | last5 = Wu | first5 = Angela Y. | author5-link = Angela Y. Wu | doi = 10.1145/293347.293348 | issue = 6 | journal = Journal of the ACM | pages = 891–923 | title = An optimal algorithm for approximate nearest neighbor searching fixed dimensions | volume = 45 | year = 1998| s2cid = 8193729 | doi-access = free k-means clustering.{{citation | last1 = Kanungo | first1 = Tapas | last2 = Mount | first2 = David M. | author2-link = David Mount | last3 = Netanyahu | first3 = Nathan S. | last4 = Piatko | first4 = Christine D. | author4-link = Christine Piatko | last5 = Silverman | first5 = Ruth | author5-link = Ruth Silverman | last6 = Wu | first6 = Angela Y. | author6-link = Angela Y. Wu | doi = 10.1109/TPAMI.2002.1017616 | issue = 7 | journal = IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. | pages = 881–892 | title = An efficient k-means clustering algorithm: analysis and implementation | volume = 24 | year = 2002| bibcode = 2002ITPAM..24..881K | s2cid = 12003435

References

References

1. [http://cs.biu.ac.il/en/node/644 Faculty profile] {{Webarchive. link. (2019-02-12 , Bar-Ilan University, retrieved 2012-02-29.)
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