Which researcher won the 2018 Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on Deep Learning?
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Yann LeCun
LeCun is best known for his work on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and their application to optical character recognition (the LeNet-5 architecture), as well as his contributions to energy-based models.
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- Which computer scientist was a co-recipient of the 2018 Turing Award for Deep Learning along with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton?