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The 2018 Turing Award, known as the "Nobel Prize of computing" has been given to Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun - sometimes called the 'godfathers of AI', for their work developing the AI subfield of deep learning. The trio believed in the potential of AI and brought to the world the innovations such as neural networks, self-driving cars, facial recognition, CNN and much more. About Turing Award: Initiated in 1966, this annual award is named after British mathematician Alan M. Turing, whose work laid the foundation for computer science and artificial intelligence. It honors the individual for contributing major technical importance in the computer field.