ON March 27, 2019, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest society of computer scientists, announced that Hinton, LeCun, and Bengio had won the Turing Award. First introduced in 1966, the Turing Award was often called “the Nobel Prize of computing.” It was named for Alan Turing, one of the key figures in the creation of the computer, and it now came with $1 million in prize money. After reviving neural network research in the mid-2000s and pushing it into the heart of the tech industry, where it remade everything from image recognition to machine translation to robotics,
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