| Kolmogorov Medal | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Life-long contributions to one of the fields initiated by Kolmogorov |
| First award | 2003 |
| Website | kolmogorov |
TheKolmogorov Medal is a prize awarded to distinguished researchers with life-long contributions to one of the fields initiated byAndrey Kolmogorov.
The Kolmogorov Medal was first awarded in 2003 to celebrate 100 years since the birth of Kolmogorov. The recipient is invited to deliver a lecture at the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning of Royal Holloway, University of London. Early lectures were published inThe Computer Journal.
The following people have received the Kolmogorov Medal:[1]
| Year | Name | Lecture |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Ray Solomonoff | The Universal Distribution and Machine Learning[paper 1] |
| 2004 | Leonid Levin | Aperiodic Tilings: Breaking Translational Symmetry[paper 2] |
| 2005 | Per Martin-Löf | 100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: what was the problem with it?[paper 3] |
| 2006 | Jorma Rissanen | The Structure Function and Distinguishable Models of Data[paper 4] |
| 2007 | Yakov Sinai | Renormalization Group Method in Probability Theory and Theory of Dynamical Systems[2] |
| 2010 | Robert C. Merton | Observations on the Science of Finance in the Practice of Finance: Past, Present, and Future[3][4] |
| 2018 | Vladimir Vapnik | Rethinking Statistical Learning Theory: Learning Using Statistical Invariants[5] |