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Geoffrey Hinton

Also Known As Geoff Hinton · G. E. Hinton
Computing Methodologies

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/

Facts
Birth Year
1947 1
Birth Date
1947-12-06 1
Nationality
British-Canadian 1
Connections

Invented

t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding, Algorithms

Geoffrey Hinton co-developed t-SNE with Laurens van der Maaten in 2008 as a technique for visualizing high-dimensional data.

Source Wikipedia: Geoffrey Hinton

Invented By

Backpropagation, Concepts

Geoffrey Hinton co-authored the 1986 Nature paper with David Rumelhart and Ronald Williams that popularized backpropagation for training multi-layer neural networks.

Long-Form Articles

Leaving Google to Warn About AI Risk, Articles
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1. Wikipedia: Geoffrey Hinton
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  • Lead section
    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’.
  • Infobox, Born
    6 December 1947
  • lede sentence, born-date clause
    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
  • lede sentence, nationality clause
    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 (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Geoff Hinton
    Geoff Hinton
  • Wikidata P166: Honda Prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Honda Prize.
  • Wikidata P166: Dickson Prize in Science
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Dickson Prize in Science.
  • Wikidata P166: Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association.
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.
  • Wikidata P166: Companion of the Order of Canada
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Companion of the Order of Canada.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Royal Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Royal Society.
  • Wikidata P166: Turing Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Turing Award.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: AAAI Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): AAAI Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh.
  • Wikidata P166: Rumelhart Prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Rumelhart Prize.
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE Maxwell Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Maxwell Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
  • Wikidata P166: Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.
  • Wikidata P166: Nobel Prize in Physics
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctor of the University of Sherbrooke
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctor of the University of Sherbrooke.
  • Wikidata P166: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctor of the University of Sussex
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctor of the University of Sussex.
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award.
  • Wikidata P166: IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IJCAI Award for Research Excellence.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society.
  • Wikidata P166: BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
  • Wikidata alias: G. E. Hinton
    G. E. Hinton
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