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Yes seems political to snub him, but then ACM is an American association.
by high_derivative 8y ago
Yes seems political to snub him, but then ACM is an American association.
- theWheez 8y agoDr. LeCun is a French native, for what it's worth
- screye 8y agoBut has spent almost all of his professional career in A&T labs, NYU, FB and Toronto. That's not true with Schmidhuber.
- dirtybird04 8y agoumm two of the award recipients are Canadians
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- high_derivative 8y agoI encourage downvoters to read the article below for a perspective on how LeCun, Hinton and Bengio may have unfairly excluded a wealth of prior work in their version of deep learning history: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-conspiracy.html http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-conspiracy.htm... Note for people put off by the link: The conspiracy refers to the title of a paper by the Turing award winners, not Schmidhuber's.