Geoffrey Hinton

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

• Born:  Geoffrey Everest Hinton, December 06, 1947, Wimbledon, 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
• Alma mater:  King's College, Cambridge, University of Edinburgh
• Thesis:  Relaxation and Its Role in Vision (1977)
• Doctoral students:  Richard Zemel, Brendan Frey, Radford M. Neal, Yee Whye Teh, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Ilya Sutskever, Alex Krizhevsky
• Other notable students:  Yann LeCun, Peter Dayan, Max Welling, Zoubin Ghahramani, Alex Graves
• Known for:  Applications of backpropagation, Boltzmann machine, Deep learning, Capsule neural networks
• Notable awards:  Rumelhart Prize (2001), Turing Award (2018), Dickson Prize (2021), Princess of Asturias Award (2022), Nobel Prize in Physics (2024), VinFuture Prize (2024), Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025)
• Spouse:  Joanne
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo