ACM People in the News

"Universite de Montreal Prof Wins $100K Killam Prize for AI Research"
Montreal Gazette (Canada), April 25, 2019
Canada Council names 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient Yoshua Bengio one of this year’s recipients of Killam Prize for his work on artificial intelligence.

"He Helped Create AI. Now, He Worries About 'Killer Robots'"
The New York Times, March 29, 2019
Yoshua Bengio, a co-recipient of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, is concerned about artificial intelligence being weaponized.

"Turing Award Winner Judea Pearl Believes to Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Researchers Should Teach Them Cause & Effect"
Analytics India, January 31, 2019
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Judea Pearl argues that AI has been hampered by an incomplete understanding of what intelligence really is.

"Levchin Prize Names Winners at the 2019 Real-World Crypto Conference"
Business Wire, January 9, 2019
Mihir Bellare, recipient of ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, receives Levchin Prize.