Alan Turing Current Affairs, GK & News
Alan Turing: WW-II Code-breaker to appear on U.K.’s new £50 bank note
Alan Turing, the code-breaker during World War II has been chosen by Bank of England to feature on Britain’s new £50 note. The £50 note will be the last of Bank of England collection to switch from paper to polymer and is due to enter circulation by end of 2021. It shows a photo of ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2019
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: Alan Turing • Alan Turing Law • Bank of England • Father of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence • UK Bank Note • World War II Code Breaker
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun win 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award
Three researchers – Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun have won the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. Bengio is Professor at the University of Montreal and Scientific Director at Mila, Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence Institute; ..
Topics: Academic disciplines • Alan Turing • Artificial intelligence • Geoffrey Hinton • Mila • Neural network • Turing Award • Turing Award laureates • Turing Lecture • Yann LeCun • Yoshua Bengio