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 Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI". He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.