Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun Deliver Turing Lecture at FCRC 2019
June 23, 5:15 - 6:30 P.M., Symphony Hall
Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun jointly delivered the Turing Lecture at FCRC 2019. Hinton's talk, "The Deep Learning Revolution," and LeCun's talk, "The Deep Learning Revolution: The Sequel," were presented June 23.
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Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Yoshua Bengio for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
Geoffrey Hinton is VP and Engineering Fellow of Google, Chief Scientific Adviser of The Vector Institute and a University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto; Yann LeCun is Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, and VP and Chief AI Scientist at Facebook; and Yoshua Bengio is Professor at the University of Montreal, and the Scientific Director of Mila (Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence Institute) and IVADO (the Institute for Data Valorization).