Vladimir Levenshtein
Vladimir Levenshtein · Technology & Engineering
Devised the Levenshtein edit-distance metric.
1935, Moscow, Soviet Union — 2017, Russia
Russia (Soviet Union)
Vladimir Levenshtein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Devised the Levenshtein edit-distance metric.
Vladimir Levenshtein was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who devised the Levenshtein distance (edit distance), a measure of the number of insertions, deletions and substitutions needed to turn one string into another. It underpins spell-checking, DNA sequence comparison, and countless algorithms in computer science. He was of Jewish heritage.
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Devised the Levenshtein edit-distance metric.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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