Leslie Valiant
Leslie Valiant · Technology & Engineering
Created the PAC model of machine learning; Turing Award laureate.
1949, Budapest, Hungary
United Kingdom · United States (Harvard)
Leslie Valiant is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Created the PAC model of machine learning; Turing Award laureate.
Valiant, born in Budapest and educated in Britain, gave machine learning its first rigorous mathematical foundation with his 1984 'probably approximately correct' (PAC) model, and made lasting contributions to complexity theory; he won the 2010 Turing Award. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1982. Valiant is listed in specialist indexes of Jewish scientists; his published biographies note his Hungarian émigré family but do not elaborate on his Jewish background.
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Created the PAC model of machine learning; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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