Turing Award – ITechiee

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun have been honoured with Turing award, which carries a $1 million prize.
Their decades of hardwork and their persistence paid off when the Association for Computing Machinery awarded them the ACM AM Turing Award, an honour that over the years has become famous as the “Nobel Prize of computing”, for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs in the field of deep neural networks.

Geoffrey Hinton works at Google as a vice-president and senior fellow.
Mr. LeCun is chief AI scientist at Facebook.
Mr. Bengio remains immersed in academia as a University of Montreal professor in addition to serving as scientific director at the Artificial Intelligence Institute in Quebec .

“For a long time, people thought what the three of us were doing was nonsense,” Mr. Hinton said in an interview with. “They thought we were very misguided and what we were doing was a very surprising thing for apparently intelligent people to waste their time on. My message to young researchers is, don’t be put off if everyone tells you what are doing is silly.”