As a part of the renovation of the learningTheory.org web site, we are launching a series of interviews with leading researchers in learning theory and related fields. We are proud that Prof. Vladimir Vapnik accepted our invitation to be the first to be interviewed.

    Prof. Vapnik has been working on learning theory related problems for more than four decades. Together with Alexey Chervonenkis he studied the problem of uniform convergence of empirical means and developed the VC theory. He also developed the large margin principles and the Support Vector Machines algorithm.