The ACM’s 2018 Turing Award was awarded to Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton.
The Turing Award is often described as the Nobel Prize of computer science. It is awarded each year to one person or a group of people for their contribution to advancing the discipline.
Professor Yann, now leading Facebook’s AI division, fully deserves this distinction along with his colleagues. They are among the key pioneers of machine learning and deep learning, and this prize reflects more than 30 years of research and perseverance. Yann LeCun’s landmark article on the subject, still widely referenced today, dates back to 1989.