The Association for Computing Machinery has announced the presentation of the 2018 ACM Turing Award to a trio of Deep Learning pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun & Yoshua Bengio. Congratulations!

"ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. Bengio is Professor at the University of Montreal and Scientific Director at Mila, Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence Institute; Hinton is VP and Engineering Fellow of Google, Chief Scientific Adviser of The Vector Institute, and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto; and LeCun is Professor at New York University and VP and Chief AI Scientist at Facebook." - via the Association for Computing Machinery