{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2019-03-27-turing-award-deep-learning/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2019-03-27-turing-award-deep-learning/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2019-03-27-turing-award-deep-learning","date":"2019-03-27","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Hinton, LeCun and Bengio receive the Turing Award for deep learning","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"milestone","category_label":"Milestones","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"ACM: 2018 Turing Award","url":"https://awards.acm.org/about/2018-turing","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"awards.acm.org"},{"n":2,"title":"Wikipedia: Turing Award","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"en.wikipedia.org"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["ACM"],"title":"Hinton, LeCun and Bengio receive the Turing Award for deep learning","summary":"The ACM awarded the 2018 A.M. Turing Award to Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, the 'godfathers of deep learning', for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.","key_facts":["Announced 27 March 2019 (the 2018 award)","Prize: $1 million, funded by Google","Recognized work on backpropagation, CNNs, and neural language models"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["award","deep-learning","history"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nComputing's highest honor went to the three researchers who kept neural networks alive through the 'AI winters'.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nSignaled the complete mainstream acceptance of deep learning within computer science.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2024-10-08-nobel-physics-hopfield-hinton","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-10-08-nobel-physics-hopfield-hinton/","date":"2024-10-08","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton","deck":null,"takeaway":"Together with the Chemistry prize a day later, it marked unprecedented recognition of AI by science's most prestigious award.","category":"milestone","category_label":"Milestones","importance":5,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":3,"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"]},{"id":"1986-10-09-backpropagation","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/1986-10-09-backpropagation/","date":"1986-10-09","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams popularize backpropagation","deck":null,"takeaway":"Backpropagation is still how essentially all neural networks, including today's LLMs, are trained.","category":"research","category_label":"Research","importance":5,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["UC San Diego","Carnegie Mellon University"]}],"people":[{"id":"geoffrey-hinton","name":"Geoffrey Hinton","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/geoffrey-hinton/"},{"id":"yann-lecun","name":"Yann LeCun","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/yann-lecun/"},{"id":"yoshua-bengio","name":"Yoshua Bengio","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/yoshua-bengio/"}],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":null}