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Geoffrey Hinton

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2024
for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
Together with: John Hopfield
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom Canada Canada
Languages
English
date of birth
12/6/1947
place of birth
Wimbledon
educated at
  • King's College
    • academic major: experimental psychology
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
    • end time: 1/1/1970
  • University of Edinburgh
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • academic major: artificial intelligence
    • end time: 1/1/1978
member of
  • Royal Society
    • start time: 1/1/1999
  • Royal Society of Canada
    • start time: 1/1/1996
  • Association for Computing Machinery
    • start time: 1/24/2024
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/2023
  • National Academy of Engineering
    • start time: 1/1/2016
  • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
employer
  • Google
    • end time: 5/1/2023
    • start time: 1/1/2013
  • University of Toronto
  • Carnegie Mellon University
doctoral student
  • Navdeep Jaitly
  • Tijmen Tieleman
  • Nina Thiessen
  • Yichuan Tang
  • Alberto Paccanaro
  • Radford M. Neal
  • Ilya Sutskever
  • Richard S. Zemel
  • Carl Edward Rasmussen
  • Yee Whye Teh
  • Peter Brown
  • Kevin Lang
  • Steven J. Nowlan
  • Brian Sallans
  • Sageev Oore
  • Christopher K. I. Williams
  • Andrew Denis Brown
  • Evan Whitney Steeg
  • Abdel-rahman Mohamed
  • James Martens
  • George Edward Dahl
  • Nitish Srivastava
  • Joshua Susskind
  • Brendan J. Frey
  • Ruslan Salakhutdinov
  • Andriy Mnih
  • Jimmy Ba
  • David C. Plaut
  • Sidney Fels
  • http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q97572832
  • Mark Derthick
  • David H. Ackley
  • Radek Grzeszczuk
field of work
  • applied psychology
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • neuroscience
  • deep learning
  • artificial neural network
occupation
  • psychologist
  • computer scientist
  • university teacher
  • neuroscientist
  • artificial intelligence researcher
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