Vladimir Levenshtein
Russian scientist
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Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein was a Russian and Soviet scientist who did research in information theory, error-correcting codes, and combinatorial design. Among other contributions, he is known for the Levenshtein distance and a Levenshtein... Wikipedia
Born: May 20, 1935, Moscow, Russia
Died: September 6, 2017 (age 82 years), Moscow, Russia
Education: Moscow State University and Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics MSU
Nationality: Russian
Award: IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2006)