Which 2018 Turing Award winner is often associated with the development of the Boltzmann machine and the popularization of backpropagation?

Geoffrey Hinton

Hinton is a central figure in the deep learning community and was a lead author on the 1986 paper that popularized backpropagation. He shared the Turing Award with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun for their work on deep neural networks.