Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning. He received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for their foundational work on deep learning, and the three are sometimes called the Godfathers of AI. Bengio is a professor at the Universite de Montreal and founded Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, serving as its scientific director until 2025. 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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AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour 1 AwardLifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association 1 AwardIEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award 1 AwardOfficer of the Order of Canada 1 AwardOfficer of the National Order of Quebec 1 AwardFellow of the Royal Society 1 AwardFellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1 AwardPrincess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 1 AwardAcfas Urgel-Archambeault Award 1 AwardQueen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 1 Connections
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born March 5, 1964
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