Nobel Prize of Computing 2018

Nobel Prize of Computing

Question: Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun are awarded with Nobel Prize for Computing. What is the actual name of the award?
(a) A M Turing Award
(b) C M Turing Award
(c) Babbage Award
(d) Abacus Fellowship
Answer: (a)
Related facts:

  • Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun are awarded with 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
  • This award is given by Association for Computing Machinery, ACM.
  • Yoshua Bengio is Professor at the University of Montreal and Scientific Director at Mila, Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence Institute.
  • Geoffrey Hinton is VP and Engineering Fellow of Google, Chief Scientific Adviser of The Vector Institute, and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.
  • Yann LeCun is Professor at New York University and VP and Chief AI Scientist at Facebook.
  • Hinton, LeCun and Bengio developed conceptual foundations for the field, identified surprising phenomena through experiments, and contributed engineering advances that demonstrated the practical advantages of deep neural networks.
  • The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” carries a $1 million prize, with financial support provided by Google, Inc. It is named for Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundation and limits of computing.

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