Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist, known for his work on artificial neural networks which earned him the title as the "Godfather of... Wikipedia

• Born:  Geoffrey Everest Hinton, December 06, 1947, Wimbledon, London, England
• Age:  77 years
• Fields:  Machine learning, Psychology, Artificial intelligence, Cognitive science, Computer science
• Institutions:  University of Toronto, Google, Carnegie Mellon University, University College London, University of California, San Diego
• Education:  Clifton College, University of Cambridge (BA), University of Edinburgh (PhD)
• Thesis:  Relaxation and its role in vision (1977)
• Doctoral students:  Richard Zemel, Brendan Frey, Radford M. Neal, Yee Whye Teh, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Ilya Sutskever
• Other notable students:  Yann LeCun (postdoc), Peter Dayan (postdoc), Max Welling (postdoc), Zoubin Ghahramani (postdoc), Alex Graves (postdoc)
• Known for:  Applications of backpropagation, Boltzmann machine, Deep learning, Capsule neural networks
• Notable awards:  AAAI Fellow (1990), Rumelhart Prize (2001), IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (2005), IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award (2014), James Clerk Maxwell Medal (2016), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016), Turing Award (2018), Dickson Prize (2021), Princess of Asturias Award (2022), Nobel Prize in Physics (2024), VinFuture Prize (2024)
• Spouse:  Joanne
• Children:  2
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo