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> Vladimir Vapnik
Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik
is one of the main developers of
Vapnik Chervonenkis theory
. He was born in
Soviet Union
; received a
master's degree
in
mathematics
from the Uzbek State University in
Samarkand
(now
Uzbekistan
), in 1958; and received a Ph.D in
statistics
from the Institute of Control Science in
Moscow
in 1964. He worked at this institute from 1961 till 1990, and became Head of the Computer Science Research Department. 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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