LeCun, Hinton, Bengio: AI conspirators awarded prestigious Turing prize

In 2006, Facebook's Yann LeCun and two comrades in machine learning, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, sought to bring back their particular field of research from a deep freeze. Their efforts were successful in sparking a new A.I. fascination, and on Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery awarded them the Turing award for making major contributions to computing.