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    <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The ACM A.M. Turing Award</a> 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".
    It is stipulated that the contributions "should be of lasting and
    major technical importance to the computer field". The Turing Award is
    generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science
    and the "Nobel Prize of computing".</p>
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Body: <p>Why does not a researcher like Geoffrey Hinton with his valuable works in machine learning (especially neural networks) get Turing award?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: [He won it for 2018 along with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun](https://awards.acm.org/about/2018-turing) :)
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Title: What are the criteria for choosing Turing award winners?
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ThreadText: # What are the criteria for choosing Turing award winners?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-06-26)
  
  Why does not a researcher like Geoffrey Hinton with his valuable works in machine learning (especially neural networks) get Turing award?
  
  **Tags:** neural-networks
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: [He won it for 2018 along with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun](https://awards.acm.org/about/2018-turing) :)  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-06-27. Score: 1
  
  > [The ACM A.M. Turing Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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".
  > It is stipulated that the contributions "should be of lasting and
  > major technical importance to the computer field". The Turing Award is
  > generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science
  > and the "Nobel Prize of computing".
  
  
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