Hinton, LeCun and Bengio receive the Turing Award for deep learning
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- 29 September 2026
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Key facts
- Announced 27 March 2019 (the 2018 award)
- Prize: $1 million, funded by Google
- Recognized work on backpropagation, CNNs, and neural language models
What happened
Computing’s highest honor went to the three researchers who kept neural networks alive through the ‘AI winters’.
Why it matters
Signaled the complete mainstream acceptance of deep learning within computer science.
Sources
2 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
2 sources: 1 primary, 1 reaction
Primary
- ACM: 2018 Turing Awardawards.acm.org, official
Reactions
- Wikipedia: Turing Awarden.wikipedia.org, discussion
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