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Geoffrey Hinton
Also Known As Geoff Hinton · G. E. Hinton
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Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist and cognitive psychologist known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title the Godfather of AI. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardDickson Prize in Science 2 AwardLifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association 2 AwardIEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award 2 AwardGerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering 2 AwardCompanion of the Order of Canada 2 AwardFellow of the Royal Society 2 Awardhonorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh 2 AwardFellow of the Royal Society of Canada 2 AwardPrincess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2 Awardhonorary doctor of the University of Sherbrooke 2 AwardQueen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2 Awardhonorary doctor of the University of Sussex 2 AwardIEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award 2 AwardIJCAI Award for Research Excellence 2 AwardFellow of the Cognitive Science Society 2 AwardBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2 Connections
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Invented
Geoffrey Hinton co-developed t-SNE with Laurens van der Maaten in 2008 as a technique for visualizing high-dimensional data.
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Invented By
Geoffrey Hinton co-authored the 1986 Nature paper with David Rumelhart and Ronald Williams that popularized backpropagation for training multi-layer 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’.
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6 December 1947
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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
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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
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Geoffrey Hinton
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