Episode
Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence
Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 14, 2020 · 1 h 45 min
Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learning. He was born in the Soviet Union, worked at the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow, then in the US, worked at AT&T, NEC Labs, Facebook AI Research, and now is a professor at Columbia University. His work has been cited over 200,000 times.…