Leslie Valiant gets Turing Award

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Leslie Valiant gets Turing Award - Artificial Intelligence | TechEye

"Top boffin Leslie Valiant, of Harvard University, has been named the winner of the 2010 Turing Award for his efforts to develop computational learning theory.

Valiant won the "Nobel Prize for computing" and $250,000 for a lifetime of work bringing together machine learning and computational complexity.

His work has lead to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence as well as computing practices such as natural language processing, handwriting recognition, and computer vision."
 
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