Jay M. Tenenbaum
Jay M. Tenenbaum, known as Marty, researched computer vision and later helped build internet-commerce organizations. His shared 1978 work studied recovery of scene characteristics from images. AAAI elected him a Fellow in 1990. He founded CommerceNet in 1994 and co-founded Veo Systems in 1997, becoming Commerce One’s chief scientist after its 1999 acquisition. He founded Cancer Commons, established in 2011, to organize collaborative knowledge and patient navigation.
- Works
- 81
- Citations
- 5,565
- h-index
- 29
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1978
Recovering structure from images
Tenenbaum co-authored 1978 work on recovering intrinsic scene characteristics. The abstract considers range, orientation, reflectance and illumination, which are combined in an image’s intensity values. It proposes using physical and scene constraints to recover those characteristics in limited domains.
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1990–1994
From AI recognition to internet commerce
AAAI elected Tenenbaum a Fellow in 1990. Tenenbaum previously led AI research groups at SRI and Schlumberger and founded CommerceNet in 1994. The organization was intended to accelerate business use of the internet.
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1997–1999
Shared work on business transactions
Tenenbaum co-founded Veo Systems in 1997. The company worked on XML-based business-to-business transactions. Commerce One acquired Veo in January 1999, and Tenenbaum became its chief scientist.
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2011
Cancer Commons
Tenenbaum founded Cancer Commons, established in 2011. Its mission combines knowledge and patient navigation while learning from experiences.
Sources and credits
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