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Employed ByA4XoubikkQMar 20132 pts▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2013 | Google DeepMind | nytimes.com | f_CQptGEFesw |
| 1987 | University of Toronto | en.wikipedia.org | f_fQhNdXYo9w |
Role / TitleProfessor Emeritus20233 pts▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Professor Emeritus | — | f_l7LgM4CmFg |
| Mar 2013 | VP and Engineering Fellow | nytimes.com | f_dIsk3jBSrg |
| 1987 | Professor of Computer Science | en.wikipedia.org | f_lpaINqQFBw |
Background
Birth Year1947—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1947 | — | f_xrorsSWSXw |
EducationPhD in Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh (1978); BA in Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | PhD in Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh (1978); BA in Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University | en.wikipedia.org | f_gH1aB2cD3e |
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JicYPdAAAAAJ—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JicYPdAAAAAJ | — | f_dmbr3kfcpp |
Notable ForGodfather of deep learning; pioneer of backpropagation, Boltzmann machines, and deep neural networks; Nobel Prize in Physics 2024; Turing Award 2018—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Godfather of deep learning; pioneer of backpropagation, Boltzmann machines, and deep neural networks; Nobel Prize in Physics 2024; Turing Award 2018 | en.wikipedia.org | f_gH4fG5hI6j |
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton | — | f_diekhjz5ad |
General
Websitehttps://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/ | — | f_dx6qemfhow |
Career History
5| Organization | Title | Start | End | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Edinburgh | PhD Student | 1972 | 1978 | en.wikipedia.org | PhD in AI under Christopher Longuet-Higgins |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Assistant Professor, Computer Science | 1982 | 1987 | en.wikipedia.org | Developed Boltzmann machines with Terry Sejnowski; pioneered backpropagation applications |
| University of Toronto | Professor of Computer Science | 1987 | — | en.wikipedia.org | University Professor (highest academic rank at U of T); professor emeritus since 2023 |
| Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) | Program Director, Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception | 2004 | 2023 | en.wikipedia.org | CIFAR funding was critical to sustaining deep learning research during the AI winter |
| deepmind | VP and Engineering Fellow | Mar 2013 | May 2023 | nytimes.com | Joined after Google acquired DNNresearch (his startup with Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever); resigned May 2023 to speak freely about AI risks |
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| ID | 5N5UqXNkkg |
| Stable ID | 5N5UqXNkkg |
| Numeric ID | E149 |
| Type | person |
| YAML Source | packages/kb/data/things/geoffrey-hinton.yaml |
| Facts | 12 structured |
| Records | 5 in 1 collection |
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