Geoffrey Hinton

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... Wikipedia

• Born:  Geoffrey Everest Hinton, December 6, 1947, London, England, UK
• Age:  78 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:  King's College, Cambridge (MA), 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, Alex Krizhevsky, Peter Brown
• Other notable students:  Yann LeCun, Peter Dayan, Max Welling, Zoubin Ghahramani, Alex Graves
• Known for:  Applications of backpropagation, Boltzmann machine, Restricted Boltzmann machine, Deep learning, Deep belief network, Knowledge distillation ("Dark knowledge"), Capsule neural networks, Mixture of experts, Product of experts, Time delay neural network, t-SNE, AlexNet, Dropout
• 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), Sandford Fleming Medal (2025)
• Spouse:  Joanne, Rosalind Zalin, Jacqueline Ford
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo