Author: Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik
Alternate names: Vladimir N. Vapnik; Vladimir Vapnik; Vladimir Naoumovitch Vapnik; Vladmir Naumovich Vapnik
Born: 1936
Bio: One of the main developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning, and the co-inventor of the support-vector machine (SVM) method, and support-vector clustering algorithm.