A.M. TURING AWARD 2018

March 29, 2019

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.