Université de Montréal professor Yoshua Bengio has been co-awarded the prestigious 1M$ A.M. Turing Award, the ‘Nobel prize of computing’. He shares the prize with colleagues Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) and Yan LeCun (New York Unversity).
Professor Bengio is a well-known artificial intelligence researcher in Montréal, the scientific director of MILA, as well as co-founder of Element AI.
To learn more: https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2019/03/27/the-nobel-prize-of-computing/
