Published on 27 March 2019
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Yann LeCun, winner of the 2018 Turing Award

march 27, 2019

Visiting Professor Yann LeCun, holder of the annual "Computer Sciences and Digital Sciences" Chair at Collège de France in 2015-2016, has just been awarded the Turing Prize by theAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM). He shares this distinction with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton. The three men are being rewarded for their contributions to computer science in the field of artificial intelligence and, in particular, deep learning.