Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton CC FRS FRSC
Hinton speaking in Toronto in 2024
Born	Geoffrey Everest Hinton (1947-12-06) 6 December 1947 (age 77)[1] Wimbledon, London, England
Education	University of Cambridge (BA) University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Known for	Applications of backpropagation Boltzmann machine Deep learning Capsule neural networks
Spouse(s)	Joanne Rosalind Zalin ​ (died 1994)​ Jackie Ford ​ ​ (m. 1997; died 2018)​
Children	2
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)
Scientific career
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
Thesis	Relaxation and its role in vision (1977)
Doctoral advisor	Christopher Longuet-Higgins
Doctoral students	Richard Zemel[2] Brendan Frey[3] Radford M. Neal[4] Yee Whye Teh[5] Ruslan Salakhutdinov[6] Ilya Sutskever[7]
Other notable students	Yann LeCun (postdoc) Peter Dayan (postdoc) Max Welling (postdoc) Zoubin Ghahramani (postdoc) Alex Graves (postdoc)
Website	www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/

Geoffrey Everest Hinton CC FRS FRSC^[8] (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist. He is known for his work on artificial intelligence (AI). He has been called the "godfather of artificial intelligence".^[9]

From 2013 to 2023, he worked for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto. In May 2023, he left Google so that he could 'freely' talk about the risks of AI.^[10][11]

Hinton received the 2018 Turing Award for his work on deep learning.^[12]

Hinton was awarded with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing it with John Hopfield, becoming the first person to win both the Turing and Physics Nobel awards.^{[13][14][15][a]}

1. ↑ Anon (2015) ,. Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help) doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.20261
2. ↑ Zemel, Richard Stanley (1994). A minimum description length framework for unsupervised learning (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. OCLC 222081343. ProQuest 304161918.
3. ↑ Frey, Brendan John (1998). Bayesian networks for pattern classification, data compression, and channel coding (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. OCLC 46557340. ProQuest 304396112.
4. ↑ Neal, Radford (1995). Bayesian learning for neural networks (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. OCLC 46499792. ProQuest 304260778.
5. ↑ Whye Teh, Yee (2003). Bethe free energy and contrastive divergence approximations for undirected graphical models. utoronto.ca (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. hdl:1807/122253. OCLC 56683361. ProQuest 305242430. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
6. ↑ Salakhutdinov, Ruslan (2009). Learning deep generative models (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. ISBN 978-0-494-61080-0. OCLC 785764071. ProQuest 577365583.
7. ↑ Sutskever, Ilya (2013). Training Recurrent Neural Networks. utoronto.ca (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. hdl:1807/36012. OCLC 889910425. ProQuest 1501655550. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
8. ↑ Anon (1998). "Professor Geoffrey Hinton FRS". Royal Society. London. Archived from the original on 3 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

   "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-09.

9. ↑ ""Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of new AI". CBS News. 25 March 2023. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
10. ↑ Douglas Heaven, Will (1 May 2023). "Deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
11. ↑ Metz, Cade (1 May 2023). "'The Godfather of A.I.' Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
12. ↑ Chung, Emily (27 March 2019). "Canadian researchers who taught AI to learn like humans win $1M award". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 26 February 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
13. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
14. ↑ "Geoffrey Hinton from University of Toronto awarded Nobel Prize in Physics". CBC News. The Associated Press. 8 October 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
15. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physics: Statistical Physics and Machine Learning, Whats the connection?". Medium. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
16. ↑ "Former CMU Faculty Geoffrey Hinton Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics". CMU.edu. Retrieved 8 October 2024.