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Yann LeCun

Also Known As LeCun · YL Cun · Yann L. Cun · Y. LeCun · Y LeCun · Yann Andr? LeCun
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Yann Andre Le Cun, usually spelled LeCun, is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1960 1
Birth Date
1960-07-08 1
Nationality
French-American 1
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Harold Pender Award 2
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Knight of the Legion of Honour 2
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honorary doctor of the University Côte d'Azur 2
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IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award 2
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Turing Award 2
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ACM Fellow 2
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AAAI Fellow 2
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PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award 2
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Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2
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Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2
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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2
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honorary doctor of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne 2
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Yann LeCun developed the convolutional neural network architecture, demonstrated in his LeNet work on handwritten digit recognition in the late 1980s and 1990s.

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1. Wikipedia: Yann LeCun
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    Yann André Le Cun ... usually spelled LeCun; born 8 July 1960) is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression.
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    8 July 1960
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    Yann André Le Cun ... usually spelled LeCun; born 8 July 1960) is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression.
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2. Wikidata: Yann LeCun
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