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Facebook's director of artificial intelligence research is one of three AI leaders who've won this year's Turing Award, sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing.
This year's winners include Yann LeCun, a New York University professor who also works on AI at Facebook; Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer science professor; and Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist and professor at the University of Montreal. The award, announced by the Association of Computing Machinery, carries a $1 million prize, with financial support from Google, and it's named for famed British mathematician Alan Turing.
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