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 "the Godfather of AI". He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.
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- Born in
- Wimbledon
- Educated at
- King's College
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Turing Award🏆 Dickson Prize in Science🏆 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering🏆 Rumelhart Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Brendan J. Frey
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1947
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