Geoffrey Hinton

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Birth Year

1947

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Background6 General1

Background

Birth Year1947—view →

EducationPhD in Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh (1978); BA in Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University—view →

Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JicYPdAAAAAJ—view →

Notable ForGodfather of deep learning; pioneer of backpropagation, Boltzmann machines, and deep neural networks; Nobel Prize in Physics 2024; Turing Award 2018—view →

Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton—view →

General

Websitehttps://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/—2 pts▶

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—	https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton	view →

Career History

Organization	Title	Start	Source	Notes	End	Source check
University of Toronto	Professor Emeritus	1987	en.wikipedia.org	Professor at University of Toronto since 1987; held joint position with Google from 2013	—	Not checked
Google DeepMind	VP & Engineering Fellow	2013-03	en.wikipedia.org	Resigned May 2023 to speak freely about AI risks; Turing Award 2018	2023-05	Not checked

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