Eilon Solan

<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2>
<p>Solan obtained a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the <a href="/facts/Hebrew_University_of_Jerusalem/aEpNukpQ">Hebrew University of Jerusalem</a> in 1989, and an M.Sc. in mathematics from <a href="/facts/Tel_Aviv_University/5MVPPor0">Tel Aviv University</a> in 1993.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> He completed his doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1998 under the supervision of <a href="/facts/Abraham_Neyman/yfeCV4PX">Abraham Neyman</a>, with a dissertation on <a href="/facts/Stochastic_game/5dcGxwCF">stochastic games</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="scientific-career">Scientific career</h2>
<p>Solan was one of the inventors of <a href="/facts/CAPTCHA/3sIyVjTk">CAPTCHA</a> in 1997, along with Eran Reshef and <a href="/facts/Gili_Raanan/NUL5yh7W">Gili Raanan</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
</p><p>Solan has 12 research papers joint with his son, Omri Nisan Solan. Some of these were published before Omri finished undergraduate studies.
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Eilon Solan at Wikimedia Commons</li>
<li><a href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=58964">Eilon Solan</a> at the <a href="/facts/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project/J7AFo1Do">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Eilon Solan". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved 23 February 2019. <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/eilonsolanphd/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/eilonsolanphd/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Solan, Eilon (1998). "Discounted Stochastic Games". Mathematics of Operations Research. 23 (4): 1010–1021. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.190.4002. doi:10.1287/moor.23.4.1010. JSTOR 3690643. <a href="/wiki/CiteSeerX_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/CiteSeerX_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>US 2005/0114705 A1, Reshef, Eran; Raanan, Gil & Solan, Eilon, "Method and system for discriminating a human action from a computerized action", published 26 May 2005 . <a href="https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/9c/fc/21/1188d59d94d268/US20050114705A1.pdf" target="_blank">https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/9c/fc/21/1188d59d94d268/US20050114705A1.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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