[idrism]

For anyone interested in SVMs (and other introductory Machine Learning concepts), Udacity's intro course is really good: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-machine-learning--ud...

[yamaneko]

This class from MIT taught by Patrick Winston is also a great resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PwhiWxHK8o

At the end of the class, he also gives some historical perspectives, like how Vapnik came up with SVMs.