Vladimir Vapnik
Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik is one of the main developers of
statistical learning theory. He was born in Russia; received a
master's degree in
mathematics from the Uzbek State University in
Samarkand, in 1958; and received a Ph.D in
statistics from the Institute of Control Science in
Moscow, in 1964. At
AT&T Bell Labs (later Shannon Labs) from 1991 through 2001?, Vapnik and his colleagues developed the theory of the
support vector machine. They demonstrated its performance on a number of problems of interest to the
machine learning community, including
handwriting recognition. He is currently at NEC Laboratories in
Princeton, New Jersey, and also
Princeton University.
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