Remember, though, that the AT&T group Vladimir came from, and that informed his work, was much in the mold of linking theory and practice. Where "practice" (at

Remember, though, that the AT&T group Vladimir came from, and that informed his work, was much in the mold of linking theory and practice. Where "practice" (at that time) was working on the handwritten digit problem -- the now-cliche NIST dataset.