Canada’s research and scientific spending is declining relative to other nations, report says

In October, University of Montreal computer scientist Yoshua Bengio reached an extraordinary milestone. According to the academic search engine Google Scholar, he is the first living person to be cited in research literature more than one million times.

Dr. Bengio was born in France and raised and educated in Montreal. A pivotal figure in the discoveries that underpin the AI revolution, he can rightly be called an example of Canadian science at its best – a homegrown genius whose impact is global and, now, record-setting.