Yoshua Bengio recently won a Turing Award, which was covered widely in the press at the time. He also appears frequently in other news articles (for example, 14

Yoshua Bengio recently won a Turing Award, which was covered widely in the press at the time. He also appears frequently in other news articles (for example, 14 articles in the New York Times). So yes, I would expect most people in the "Technology News" section at Reuters to at least be familiar with his name. And even if they didn't expect many readers to know who Yoshua Bengio is, he's still more well-known than Samy.