Solomon Kullback
Solomon Kullback · Technology & Engineering
Co-developed the Kullback-Leibler information divergence.
1907, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 1994, Washington, D.C., United States
United States
Solomon Kullback is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-developed the Kullback-Leibler information divergence.
Kullback was a mathematician and cryptanalyst who, with Richard Leibler, introduced the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a measure of the difference between two probability distributions now central to statistics, information theory and machine learning. He was a founding figure of American signals intelligence and a longtime senior official at the National Security Agency. He was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn.
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Co-developed the Kullback-Leibler information divergence.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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