Levenshtein distance, Levenshtein transducer, Levenstein coding, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
Spir
(2012-05-01
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ISBN-13:
978-613-9-29661-3
ISBN-10:
6139296617
EAN:
9786139296613
Book language:
English
Blurb/Shorttext:
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein (born 1935) is a Russian scientist who did research in information theory and error-correcting codes. Among other contributions, he is known for the Levenshtein distance algorithm, which he developed in 1965. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow State University in 1958 and has worked at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow ever since. He is a fellow of the IEEE Information Theory Society.