VinFuture Prize Award Ceremony opens in Hanoi

The 2024 VinFuture Prize Award Ceremony was organized in Hanoi on December 6, honoring groundbreaking achievements and technological solutions selected from nearly 1,500 impressive nominations from over 80 countries and territories worldwide.

These groundbreaking achievements have the potential to significantly impact humanity’s present and future, particularly in critical fields like computer science, public health and global health, material science, and generative medicine.

The 2024 VinFuture Grand Prize is awarded to five scientists: Professor Yoshua Bengio, Professor Geoffrey E. Hinton, Mr. Jen-Hsun Huang, Professor Yann LeCun, and Professor Fei-Feil Li for transformational contributions to the advancement of deep learning.

Addressing the 4th VinFuture Prize awarding ceremony, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed that the Vietnamese Party and State always attach importance to science-technology and innovation, considering them an objective requirement, a strategic choice, a national policy and a top priority which will drive rapid and sustainable development in the new era.

He highlighted Vietnam’s priority to fine-tuning institutions, mechanisms and policies for science-technology and innovation, especially in emerging and critical areas such as digital transformation, green transition, creative economy, semiconductor, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and the Internet of Things.

Congratulating the winners of the VinFuture Prize 2024, he reaffirmed Vietnam’s commitment to create all possible support for science-technology and innovation to further shine and develop.

Vietnam always welcomes and encourages experts, scientists, businesses and investors to bring their ideas, opportunities and investment projects into fruition, he said.

Vietnam will keep improving its science-technology and innovation environment, he said.