Description
Best known for his contributions to error-correction theory and information theory, Levenshtein is sometimes called the father of edit distance and is known for the Levenshtein distance algorithm, which he developed in 1965.
He was a Russian scientist who conducted research in information theory and error-correcting codes. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow State University in 1958 and worked at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow thereafter. He was a fellow of the IEEE Information Theory Society.
