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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who of the following has /have won the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award?
A
Yann LeCun
B
Geoffrey Hinton
C
Yoshua Bengio
D
All of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dabbala Rajagopal “Raj” Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years.

Detailed explanation-3: -Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to “an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community". The Turing Award is recognized as the “highest distinction in computer science” and “Nobel Prize of Computing".

Detailed explanation-4: -Hennessy and Patterson will formally receive the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award at the ACM’s annual awards banquet on Saturday, June 23, 2018 in San Francisco, California.

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