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Geoffrey Hinton

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Geoffrey Hinton

b. 1947

British-Canadian computer scientist (born 1947)

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"Redwood Center Lecture on Deep Learning" — March 22, 2010

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1947 December 6, 1947 →

Biography

Geoffrey Everest Hinton 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.

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1947
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Geoffrey Hinton, British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, and cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate

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