The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
Awarded on: 2024-10-08
"for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"
Affiliations:
- Princeton University – Princeton, NJ, USA
John J. Hopfield
Born: 1933-07-15 in Chicago, IL, USA
Gender: male
Field: American scientist (born 1933)
Biography
John Joseph Hopfield is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. He is known for the development of the Hopfield network. Previous to its invention, research in artificial intelligence (AI) was in a decay period or AI winter, Hopfield's work revitalized large-scale interest in this field.