Vladimir Vapnik Has Joined Facebook AI Research

    We are delighted to announce that Vladimir Vapnik
      has joined Facebook AI Research.

    Vladimir is universally known in the machine learning
      and statistics communities as the father of statistical
      learning theory and the co-inventor of the Support Vector
      Machine method. One of the key concepts of learning theory
      bears his name: the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension, which 
      measures the capacity of a learning machine.

    Vladimir is rejoining some of his long-time collaborators 
      Jason Weston, Ronan Collobert, and Yann LeCun.

    He is working on new book, and will be collaborating with FAIR
      research scientists to develop some of his new ideas on 
      conditional density estimation, learning with privileged 
      information, and other topics.

It is great that facebook provides a good environment for Machine Learning research. Besides they publish papers and contribute to the community.

However, it is sad and disturbing that all that talent and knowledge in AI is also working to create a tool that doesn't give a shit about our privacy.