Two of Canada’s notable pioneers in AI have been named co-winners of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their work in deep neural networks. Geoffrey Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto (UofT), has been named a recipient of the award, along with Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal.
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