2018
Hinton, Bengio, and LeCun share Turing Award
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun won the 2018 ACM Turing AwardThe ACM's highest honor in computing — often called the Nobel Prize of computer science. for deep learningNeural networks with many layers that learn hierarchical representations from data. breakthroughs.
What it was for
The trio spent decades on backpropagation, CNNs, and representation learning before industry adoption. Their award recognized neural networkA model of connected layers that learns from examples — the core of modern deep learning.s as foundational computer science, not a abandoned fad.
People
- Yoshua Bengio — researcher
- Geoffrey Hinton — researcher
- Yann LeCun — researcher
Why it's here
The 2018 Turing AwardThe ACM's highest honor in computing — often called the Nobel Prize of computer science. canonized deep learningNeural networks with many layers that learn hierarchical representations from data.'s founding researchers.
Why it mattered
It validated decades of neural networkA model of connected layers that learns from examples — the core of modern deep learning. research after multiple AI winters.
What it solved
Neural networkA model of connected layers that learns from examples — the core of modern deep learning. research lacked mainstream recognition despite practical success.
Media
ImageGeoffrey HintonCmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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