= Vladimir Vapnik
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Vladimir Vapnik is a prominent Russian-American computer scientist and statistician, widely known for his contributions to the fields of machine learning and statistical learning theory. Born on September 6, 1939, in the Soviet Union, Vapnik made significant strides in the development of algorithms that form the foundation of modern machine learning. He is particularly well-known for co-developing the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm, which is used for classification and regression tasks in machine learning.
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