{"id":500,"date":"2019-04-01T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2019-04-01T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T21:58:00","slug":"472","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/2019\/04\/01\/472\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Researchers Win Turing Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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<p>Their citation reads as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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<p>Please see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__awards.acm.org_about_2018-2Dturing&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&amp;r=CnTTSgpOCRzlS1WUgQ5dgQ&amp;m=7AeXdv5-pFB1oLKiTaN6Xy_tTfTOkn1tWWKpb_r7x7I&amp;s=GhW1aoqNgXggGI7EwFTzswZcnz9rPXbVUx_xo8MIH58&amp;e=\">https:\/\/awards.acm.org\/about\/2018-turing<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that the recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. 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