Trio of Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun wins 2018 Turing Award – “Nobel Prize of computing”
- Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun have won the 2018 Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize of computing”.
- The trio is known as ‘godfathers of AI’. They are known for laying the foundations for the current boom in artificial intelligence.
- The techniques the trio developed in the 1990s and 2000s enabled huge breakthroughs in tasks like computer vision and speech recognition.