The A.M Turing award considered as the ‘Nobel Prize’ of computing is awarded annually by the Association Of Computing Machinery to an individual for his contribution “of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field.” The winners of 2018 Turing award have been named as Yoshua Bengio, Geoffery Hinton and Yann LeCunn for their contributions in the field of Artificial Intelligence(AI).
The trio of researchers is considered to have laid the foundations for the current boom in artificial intelligence. The three men who won, developed Deep Learning laying the conceptual and engineering foundations for AI by using neural networks for computing. Bengio is a professor at the University of Montreal and the science director of both Mila (Quebec’s AI Institute) and the Institute for Data Valorization. Hinton is a vice president and engineering fellow at Google, chief scientific adviser of the Vector Institute and a professor at the University of Toronto. LeCun is a vice president and chief AI scientist at Facebook and a professor at New York University. Bengio and LeCun are also co-directors of CIFAR’s Learning in Machines and Brains program.
“It’s very nice that the group of us have been recognized as having a big impact,” said Hinton, who has sometimes been referred to as the “godfather” of deep learning, as the field is known.
Their work over the past several years used algorithms to extract patterns often known as Pattern Recognition, in data that recognized languages, environments and objects and led to breakouts in speech recognition, robotics and machine learning of digital images and videos. These deep neural networks became advanced at Image Recognition.
