Geoffrey Hinton

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Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneering computer scientist widely regarded as one of the founding figures of deep learning and modern artificial intelligence.


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instanceOf Turing Award laureate
artificial intelligence researcher
cognitive psychologist
computer scientist
deep learning pioneer
academicPosition Emeritus Professor at University of Toronto
Professor at University of Toronto
almaMater University of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh
awardReceived BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Herbrand Award
IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award
Killam Prize
Order of Canada
Turing Award
birthDate 1947-12-06
birthPlace London, England
citizenship Canada
United Kingdom
coRecipientOf 2018 Turing Award
coRecipientWith Yann LeCun
Yoshua Bengio
degree BA in Experimental Psychology
PhD in Artificial Intelligence
doctoralAdvisor Christopher Longuet-Higgins
employer Google
Google Brain
University of Toronto
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
familyName Hinton
fieldOfWork artificial intelligence
cognitive science
deep learning
machine learning
fullName Geoffrey Everest Hinton
givenName Geoffrey
hasConcern risks of advanced artificial intelligence
hasSpokenAbout existential risks from AI
regulation of AI technologies
knownFor Boltzmann machines
backpropagation in neural networks
contributions to computer vision using deep learning
contributions to speech recognition using deep learning
deep belief networks
deep learning
restricted Boltzmann machines
memberOf Royal Society
Royal Society of Canada
notableStudent Ilya Sutskever
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Yoshua Bengio
notableWork “A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets”
“Learning representations by back-propagating errors”
position Chief Scientific Advisor at Vector Institute
Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google
researchInterest distributed representations
neural networks
representation learning
unsupervised learning


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