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:
- University of Toronto – Toronto, Canada
Geoffrey Hinton
Born: 1947-12-06 in London, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British-Canadian computer scientist (born 1947)
Biography
Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist, and Nobel laureate in physics, known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI".