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Also known as Geoff Hinton, G. E. Hinton

British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist

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Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, university teacher, neuroscientist, and psychologist. Born on December 6, 1947, in Wimbledon, he holds citizenship in the United Kingdom and Canada. His work focuses on deep learning, machine learning, neuroscience, and artificial neural networks. Hinton has been employed by the University of Toronto, Google, and Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and the Royal Society of Canada.

Hinton received his education at the University of Edinburgh and King's College, with H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins serving as his doctoral advisor. He has supervised doctoral students including Ruslan Salakhutdinov and Ilya Sutskever. His father was Howard Everest Hinton. Hinton has received several awards, including the Rumelhart Prize, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, and the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. He is also recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Acting · Wimbledon, London, England, UK

Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. Since 2013, he has divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto. In 2017, he co-founded and became the Chief Scientific Advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.

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  • Chasing Utopia2026
  • Atlas — Geoffrey Hinton (uncredited)2024
  • The Genius of George Boole — Self2015

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  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2024

    “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”

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Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) 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.

From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google Brain and the University of Toronto before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the many risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In 2017, he co-founded and became the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.

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