COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Yoshua Bengio

1964 - Today

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Yoshua Bengio (born March 5, 1964) is a Canadian computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor at the Université de Montréal and scientific director of the AI institute MILA. Bengio received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing", together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, for their foundational work on deep learning. Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshua Bengio has received more than 1,129,031 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Yoshua Bengio is the 177th most popular computer scientist (down from 167th in 2019), the 5,191st most popular biography from France (down from 4,792nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Computer Scientist.

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  • 50.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Yoshua Bengio ranks 177 out of 245. Before him are Jon Hall, Evan Williams, Ralph Merkle, Dave Cutler, Alan Cooper, and Peter Shor. After him are Audrey Tang, Henriette Avram, Luis von Ahn, Sugata Mitra, Edward F. Moore, and Noga Alon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Yoshua Bengio ranks 452. Before him are Taisia Povaliy, Yeardley Smith, Yukio Edano, Herbert Fandel, Victor Wooten, and L'Wren Scott. After him are Sheila Echols, Miguel Varoni, Rockwell, Omowunmi Sadik, Valentina Yegorova, and René Pape.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yoshua Bengio ranks 5,191 out of 6,770. Before him are Vincent Guérin (1965), Eliaquim Mangala (1991), Olivier Weber (1958), Alou Diarra (1981), Raïs M'Bolhi (1986), and Philippe Méaille (1973). After him are Elsa Lunghini (1973), Serge Blusson (1928), Christophe Honoré (1970), Loïc Rémy (1987), Patrice Rio (1948), and Laurent Lafitte (1973).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In France

Among computer scientists born in France, Yoshua Bengio ranks 6. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809), Pierre Bézier (1910), Jacques Vallée (1939), Yann LeCun (1960), and Bertrand Meyer (1950).

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