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Avrim Blum

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Avrim Blum · Technology & Engineering

What

Foundational theorist of machine learning; Kanellakis Award (2021)

When

1966, United States

Where

United States

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Biography

Avrim Blum is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Foundational theorist of machine learning; Kanellakis Award (2021)

How & why

Avrim Blum is a theoretical computer scientist, formerly of Carnegie Mellon and now chief academic officer at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, whose foundational contributions to machine learning theory, online learning and algorithmic game theory earned the 2021 Paris Kanellakis Award. He is the son of computer scientists Manuel and Lenore Blum. His family is of Jewish background.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Foundational theorist of machine learning; Kanellakis Award (2021)

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award