YB
Technology & Engineering

Yoshua Bengio

Share
Who

Yoshua Bengio · Technology & Engineering

What

Pioneer of deep learning and Turing Award laureate.

When

1964, Paris, France

Where

France · Canada

Prizes and awards
Biography

Yoshua Bengio is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Pioneer of deep learning and Turing Award laureate.

How & why

Bengio, born in Paris to a Moroccan Sephardic Jewish family and based in Montreal, is one of the founders of modern deep learning. Through decades of work on neural networks — often when the field was unfashionable — he advanced the techniques behind today's artificial intelligence, sharing the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.

Sources & external links

Verify and go deeper with these external references.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.

Contributions & Sources

Pioneer of deep learning and Turing Award laureate.

1964

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science