Věra Kůrková

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Věra Kůrková is a Czech mathematician and computer scientist, affiliated with the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include neural networks, computational learning theory, and nonlinear approximation theory. She formulated the abstract concept of a variational norm in 1997 which puts ideas of Maurey, Jones, and Barron into the context of functional analysis. See V. Kůrková, Dimension-independent rates of approximation by neural networks. In: Warwick, K., Karny, M. (eds.) Computer-Intensive Methods in Control and Signal Processing. The Curse of Dimensionality, Birkhauser, Boston, MA, pp. 261–270 (1997). See also F. Girosi and G. Anzellotti, Convergence rates of approximation by translates, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, AI Memo No. 1288, April 1995, C.B.I.P. Paper No. 73. Kůrková is also known for the concept of quasiorthogonal set which she developed jointly with Robert Hecht-Nielsen and Paul Kainen.