We are pleased to announce that the recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award are AI researchers Yoshua Bengio, Professor at the University of Montreal and Scientific Director at Mila; Geoffrey Hinton, Professor at the University of Toronto and Chief Scientific Advisor at the Vector Institute; and Yann LeCun, Professor at New York University and Chief AI Scientist at Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their citation reads as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun will be presented with the Turing Award at the June 15, 2019 ACM Awards Banquet in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please see https:\/\/awards.acm.org\/about\/2018-turing<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are pleased to announce that the recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award are AI researchers Yoshua Bengio, Professor at the University of Montreal and Scientific Director at Mila; Geoffrey Hinton, Professor at the University of Toronto and Chief Scientific Advisor at the Vector Institute; and Yann LeCun, Professor at New York University … Continue reading “AI Researchers Win Turing Award”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}