March 28, 2019 11:34 AM
A.M. Turing Award, referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”, announced
Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.<br />''<br />''Bengio is Professor at the University of Montreal and Scientific Director at Mila, Quebec's Artificial Intelligence Institute; Hinton is VP and Engineering Fellow of Google, Chief Scientific Adviser of The V...