Three ‘Godfathers of Deep Learning’ Selected for Turing Award
- Invented the techniques underpinning today’s AI breakthroughs
- Hinton, Bengio, LeCun honored with ‘Nobel Prize of Computing’
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Three computer scientists who laid the foundations for many of the recent advances in artificial intelligence are being honored with this year’s Turing Award, considered the field’s highest accolade.
Geoff Hinton, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto and a senior researcher at Alphabet Inc.’s Google Brain, Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University and the chief AI scientist at Facebook Inc., and Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal as well as co-founder of AI company Element AI Inc., will share this year’s award, which is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery.