Ď㽶ĘÓƵ News - Yoshua Bengio /channels/news_feeds/all/term/Yoshua%20Bengio/rss en Matt Dobbs awarded 2019 Killam Research Fellowship in Natural Sciences /channels/channels/news/matt-dobbs-awarded-2019-killam-research-fellowship-natural-sciences-296432 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Ď㽶ĘÓƵ astrophysicist <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/mcgillcosmology.ca/mcgillcosmology/matt-dobbs"><strong>Matt Dobbs</strong></a> is the recipient of the 2019 Killam Research Fellowship in Natural Sciences.</p> <p>The announcement was made today by the Canada Council for the Arts, which revealed this year's winners of the prestigious Killam Program, composed of the Killam Prizes and the Killam Research Fellowships. </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/dobbs-matt-oe.jpg?itok=rwnx9x_g" width="160" height="201" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">25 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2019</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:13:19 +0000 webfull 148619 at /channels Bengio co-recipient of A.M. Turing Award /channels/channels/news/bengio-co-recipient-am-turing-award-295735 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>by Daniel McCabe</em></p> <p>Congratulations to McGill graduate Yoshua Bengio, BEng’86, MSc’88, PhD’91, on being named a co-recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award. Frequently referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” the Turing Award, presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizes individuals for major contributions of lasting importance to computing. </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/bengio-yoshua.png?itok=vQHeuXkH" width="160" height="110" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">27 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2019</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:12:32 +0000 webfull 147695 at /channels