CNN invented in 1983 by Yann LeCun, a French engineer from ESIEE , a non-traditional (sans strong math background from Classe Préparatoire) Ecole engineering of Électrotechnique & Electronic.
Yann received Turing Prize for CNN : a Nobel Prize IT, together with Prof Hinton (Deeplearning inventor).
He is Meta (FaceBook) Chief AI Scientist.
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