Copy-paste for those not interested going to fb.com: We are delighted to announce that Vladimir Vapnik has joined Facebook AI Research. Vladimir

Copy-paste for those not interested going to fb.com: We are delighted to announce that Vladimir Vapnik has joined Facebook AI Research. Vladimir is universally known in the machine learning and statistics communities as the father of statistical learning theory and the co-inventor of the Support Vector Machine method. One of the key concepts of learning theory bears his name: the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension, which measures the capacity of a learning machine. Vladimir is rejoining some of his long-time collaborators Jason Weston, Ronan Collobert, and Yann LeCun. He is working on new book, and will be collaborating with FAIR research scientists to develop some of his new ideas on conditional density estimation, learning with privileged information, and other topics.