- Robert Mercer
- Robert Mercer: Renaissance Technologies
- Robert Mercer: More Info
Mercer is a major donor to conservative political causes including: Breitbart News and Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign. He has also given money to Super PACs affiliated with Freedom Partners, Club for Growth Action, and John R. Bolton.
Career-wise, he began at IBM Research where he developed the “Mercer Clustering” concept which is now a standard statistical machine translation method used in speech recognition and translation.