Richard Leibler
Richard Leibler · Technology & Engineering
Co-developed the Kullback-Leibler information divergence.
1914, Chicago, Illinois, United States — 2003, Reston, Virginia, United States
United States
Richard Leibler is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-developed the Kullback-Leibler information divergence.
Richard Leibler was a mathematician and cryptanalyst who, with Solomon Kullback, introduced the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a measure of the difference between two probability distributions that is central to information theory, statistics and machine learning. He worked for decades in U.S. cryptologic research. He was Jewish.
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Co-developed the Kullback-Leibler information divergence.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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