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Vladimir Vapnik Joins Facebook Research

by gie on 11/25/14, 8:58 PM with 25 comments

• by patkai on 11/26/14, 7:07 AM

  Am I the only one assuming that this many excellent scientists moving from academia is a loss for science in general? Will they really publish research in the same way they did before?

  (Make no mistake, I can fully understand them, professors paid 80k per year, lacking resources, fighting bureaucrats, it is a great thing that they are recognised and at last paid what they deserve for devoting their lives to science.)

• by iandanforth on 11/25/14, 9:05 PM

  This is another great example of the unreasonable effectiveness of data. LeCunn, Hinton, Ng, Vapnik were all recruited on the basic fact that there is simply no way to do cutting edge research today without access to the data and computing resources of Google/Facebook/Yahoo/Baidu.

  Edit: "No way" is inaccurate. I should have said it is much easier to do at these companies. Also it is inaccurate to imply this is the only reason these great minds have joined these companies.

• by vrnut on 11/25/14, 11:08 PM

  I'm probably not the only VR nut who confused the person in the title with Vladimir Vukićević, the Director of Engineering of Mozilla who has done worked on some Oculus-centric web vr stuff for Mozilla.

  http://blog.bitops.com/blog/2014/06/26/first-steps-for-vr-on...

• by vanderZwan on 11/26/14, 11:03 AM

  A few weeks ago an article on Nautil.us about innovations in machine learning. Vladimir Vapnik was mentioned, specifically how he used poetry to teach a machine handwriting. Very fascinating article in general:

  http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/teaching-me-softly

• by dmmcenzie on 11/26/14, 8:13 AM

  Never heard of the guy. Who?