>If I could give Turing Award for someone in the field who has not received it yet, I would give it to Vladimir Vapnik. So would I, but I don't think that will

>If I could give Turing Award for someone in the field who has not received it yet, I would give it to Vladimir Vapnik. So would I, but I don't think that will happen. He's is pretty much an antithesis to everything Deep Learning is about. Theory-first over trial-and-error, math over intuition, small datasets over big data, advances in understanding vs advances in results. I haven't seen a single discussion of his paper on combining classifiers[1] anywhere on the web. [1] - http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume17/16-137/16-137.pdf http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume17/16-137/16-137.pdf