A.M. TURING AWARD 2018

About: 

• Name: The A.M. Turing Award is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing". 
  
  
• Criteria: It is awarded to an individual making contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computer science. 
  
  
• Presented by: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM is a non-profit professional membership group, headquartered in New York City. 
  
  
• Cash prize: $1 million prize, with financial support provided by Google, Inc. 
  
  
• History: It was first awarded in 1966. 
  
  
• Recipients for 2018: Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun. 
  • They have won it making deep neural networks a critical component of computing. 
    
    
  • In recent years, deep learning methods have been responsible for astonishing breakthroughs in computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and robotics—among other applications.