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<p>Yoshua Bengio, Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms at Université de Montréal, is one of five winners of the 2019 Killam Prizes. / Credit: Mila (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute)</p>
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<p>Yoshua Bengio, Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms at Université de Montréal, is one of five winners of the 2019 Killam Prizes. / Credit: Mila (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute)</p>
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https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/news-killamprizes-250-2/
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