The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun the A.M. Turing Award 2018 for making breakthroughs in deep neural networks.
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.
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