- Vladimir Vapnik
Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik ( _ru. Владимир Наумович Вапник) is one of the main developers of
Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory . He was born in theSoviet Union . He received hismaster's degree inmathematics at the [http://nuu.uz/?ln=en Uzbek State University] ,Samarkand , Uzbek SSR in1958 and Ph.D instatistics at the [http://ipu.ru/engl/ics_main.htm Institute of Control Sciences] ,Moscow in1964 . He worked at this institute from1961 to1990 and became Head of the Computer Science Research Department. At the end of 1990, he moved to the USA and joined the Adaptive Systems Research Department atAT&T Bell Labs inHolmdel, New Jersey . The group later became the Image Processing Research Department ofAT&T Laboratories when AT&T spun offLucent Technologies in1996 . Vapnik Left AT&T in2002 and joinedNEC Laboratories inPrinceton, New Jersey , where he currently works in the Machine Learning group. He also holds a Professor of Computer Science and Statistics position atRoyal Holloway, University of London since1995 , as well as an Adjunct Professor position atColumbia University ,New York City since2003 .He was inducted into the U.S.National Academy of Engineering in2006 .While at AT&T, Vapnik and his colleagues developed the theory of the
support vector machine . They demonstrated its performance on a number of problems of interest to themachine learning community, includinghandwriting recognition .Writings
* "On the uniform convergence of relative frequencies of events to their probabilities", co-author A. Y. Chervonenkis, 1971
* "Necessary and sufficient conditions for the uniform convergence of means to their expectations", co-author A. Y. Chervonenkis, 1981
* "Estimation of Dependences Based on Empirical Data", 1982
* "The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory", 1995
* "Statistical Learning Theory", 1998
* "Estimation of Dependences Based on Empirical Data", Reprint 2006 (Springer), also contains a philosophical essay on "Empirical Inference Science", 2006See also
*
Alexey Chervonenkis External links
* [http://lecun.org/gallery/libpro/20011121-allyourbayes/dsc01228-02-h.jpgPhotograph of Professor Vapnik]
* [http://clrc.rhul.ac.uk/people/vlad Vapnik's brief biography] from the Computer Learning Research Centre, Royal Holloway.
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