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2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who won 2018 Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of computing along with Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun?
A
Geoffrey Hinton
B
John L. Hennessy
C
Whitfield Diffie
D
David A. Patterson
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -“At the heart of this progress are fundamental techniques developed starting more than 30 years ago by this year’s Turing Award recipients, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bengio, Hinton and LeCun will formally receive the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award at ACM’s annual awards banquet on June 15 in San Francisco, California. “Artificial intelligence is now one of the fastest-growing areas in all of science and one of the most talked-about topics in society,” said ACM President Cherri M.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dabbala Rajagopal “Raj” Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-born 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.

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