The Turing Award, Nobel equivalent for the computer, was delivered this year to a professor at the prestigious Harvard University, whose research helped create the "supercomputer" which recently won a game of Jeopardy!
Leslie Valiant, professor of computer science and applied mathematics, was awarded for "his contributions to the evolution of the theory of cognitive computing and more broadly to information theory, said Wednesday night the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an American organization that supports research computing.
The Turing Award, which is named after British mathematician Alan M. Turing, is endowed with $ 250,000 and is sponsored by U.S. chip giant Intel and Internet giant Google.
"The findings of Leslie Valiant in the past 30 years provided a theoretical basis the progress in artificial intelligence," said ACM President, Alain Chesnais.
"Your knowledge of computer science, mathematics and cognitive theory, combined with other techniques allowed to build modern forms of learning and communication for the machine, as with Watson's IBM supercomputer," said Chesnais. Watson
easily won two champions in a game televised contests of knowledge (Jeopardy!), dramatically demonstrating the potential of artificial intelligence.
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