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It was a travesty Schmidhuber didn't receive the Turing award along with Hinton, Lecun, and Bengio last year.
by nafizh 7y ago
It was a travesty Schmidhuber didn't receive the Turing award along with Hinton, Lecun, and Bengio last year.
- Ormus 7y agoNo it wasn't. Stop forming opinions from uninformed internet memes.
- bonoboTP 7y agoIt does seem to me that there could be some bias in this award's history. The Turing Award has been awarded every year (usually to multiple people) since 1966. Look it up on Wikipedia. How many laureates of the 70 can you find who performed their research outside of the Angloshpere? I didn't look in detail, but after a quick glance it seems about 5 out of the 70 (Daal, Nygaard, Shamir, Naur, Sifakis)? (Or how many who grew up outside the Anglosphere?) Maybe that reflects the true state of things and almost all of CS was developed in the Angloshpere. Even if that's so historically, I think it may induce some bias when evaluating people's contribution from outside the Anglo community and network.