Facebook’s campaign to grow its artificial intelligence talent pool has announced a new victory. The social networking company’s AI lab today revealed — in a Facebook post, naturally — its latest high-profile hire: Vladimir Vapnik. He’s credited with coming up with the first support vector machine (SVM) algorithm. SVMs are widely used today for machine learning […]
Facebook's AI team hires Vladimir Vapnik, father of the popular support vector machine algorithm
Venture Beat - 25 Nov 2014 23:23
Facebook’s campaign to grow its artificial intelligence talent pool has announced a new victory. The social networking company’s AI lab today revealed — in a Facebook post, naturally — its latest high-profile hire: Vladimir Vapnik. He’s credited with coming up with the first support vector machine (SVM) algorithm. SVMs are widely used today for machine learning […]
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