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Professor Cherkassky receives Microsoft Research Award
2008-04-02 16:34 (CDT)
Professor Vladimir Cherkassky has received the A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award from Microsoft Research. This memorial award serves as a tribute to the accomplishments of A. Richard Newton, who was a professor and dean of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley. Professor Cherkassky received one of only ten awards made to universities worldwide in recognition of "breakthrough research that will potentially have a profound impact on the research community and society as a whole." The title of his project is, "Non-Inductive Methodlogies for Learning with Sparse Heterogeneous Data."