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Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist. He is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de Montréal, and also the scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
For his work on deep learning, Bengio received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, alongside partners Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. In 2024, Bengio was named in TIME Magazine's yearly list of the world's 100 most influential people.
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist. He is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de Montréal, and also the scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
For his work on deep learning, Bengio received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, alongside partners Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. In 2024, Bengio was named in TIME Magazine's yearly list of the world's 100 most influential people.
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