Category: turing award

Pixar animation pioneers win computing’s most prestigious award

Post author By Randall
Post date March 18, 2020
Categories In 3d, av, edwin catmull, Entertainment, graphics, patrick hanrahan, Pixar, Tech, toy story, turing award

[ad_1] Catmull, a computer scientist and former president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, and Hanrahan, a founding employee at Pixar, have both been recognized for fundamentally influencing the field of computer graphics. Thanks to them, what were once blocky shapes made from polygons have been transformed into curved surfaces displaying mind-blowing detail. Pixar’s Toy […]

Turing Award winners include AI giants from Facebook and Google

Post author By Randall
Post date March 27, 2019
Categories In acm, Ai, alan turing, Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, Facebook, gear, geoffrey hinton, Google, machine learning, neural network, personal computing, personalcomputing, Robots, Tech, turing award, yann lecun
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[ad_1] Hinton, for instance, proved that a then-rare backpropagation algorithm could help neural networks solve problems that were previously unfeasible. LeCun was instrumental to developing technologies behind modern computer vision, while Bengio helped foster generative adversarial networks (that is, pitting a creative network against another that serves as a kind of quality control) that can […]