ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
One might think that news of the 2019 Honda Prize being awarded to Dr. Geoffrey Hinton “for his pioneering research in the field of deep learning in artificial intelligence (AI)” would prompt the machine learning community to toast the man they call the “Godfather of Deep Learning.” Instead, the...