For fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning.
2012 Silvio Micali Shafi Goldwasser
For transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory.
2013 Leslie Lamport
For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems, notably the invention of concepts such as causality and logical clocks, safety and liveness, replicated state machines, and sequential consistency.
2014 Michael Stonebraker
For fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems.
2015 Martin E. Hellman
Whitfield Diffie For fundamental contributions to modern cryptography. Diffie and Hellman"s groundbreaking 1976 paper, "New Directions in Cryptography,"[39]introduced the ideas of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, which are the foundation for most regularly-used security protocols on the internet today.
對於deep learning來講,what is its fundamental theory or concept? 或許NN可以算是deep learning一種fundamental的形式,這樣的話,就像熊辰炎所說,也應該發給NN最初的發明者。但是在theory方面,deep learning對於computer science甚至對於AI這一領域可確實沒啥可稱作fundamental contributions的了。對於這三位傑出的scientist,他們真正的貢獻應該更多的是在practical層面,是他們不懈的努力,讓很多現實中原先很難解決的問題(比如語音識別,圖像識別等等),被NN或者說deep NN很好的解決了。就好比諾貝爾獎不會給愛迪生,但愛迪生改變了人類的生活一樣,圖靈獎和這三位之間或許完全不用互相奢求吧。
Turing Award 其實很奇葩,一個領域發了圖靈獎,就代表這個領域基本上已經死了,沒什麼好做的了。比如密碼學,自動機,分散式計算,與模型檢測。 而且這個獎特別喜歡發給做理論的。我呢,恰恰相反,認為這世界上的絕大多數事情人類是不可能找到嚴格理論的。