Geoffrey Hinton
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Geoffrey Hinton was born on December 6, 1947, in Wimbledon and holds citizenship in the United Kingdom and Canada[1][2]. He is the son of Howard Everest Hinton[1]. His educational background includes studies at the University of Edinburgh and King's College[1].
He works as a computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, university teacher, neuroscientist, and psychologist[3][4]. His professional fields encompass deep learning, machine learning, neuroscience, and artificial neural networks[4]. Over his career, he has been employed by the University of Toronto, Google from 2013 to 2023, and Carnegie Mellon University[5][6].
His contributions have been recognized with numerous awards, including being named a Fellow of the Royal Society, receiving the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award, the Rumelhart Prize, the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, and being named an AAAI Fellow, among others[1][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. 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[14].
Key Facts
- Father: Howard Everest Hinton[8]
- Country of citizenship: United Kingdom[9], Canada[10]
- Field of work: deep learning[11], machine learning[12], neuroscience[13], artificial neural network[14], applied psychology[15], artificial intelligence[16]
- Employer: University of Toronto[17], Carnegie Mellon University[18]
- Doctoral advisor: H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins[19]
- Award received: Fellow of the Royal Society[20], IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award[21], Rumelhart Prize[22], IJCAI Award for Research Excellence[23], BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award[24], AAAI Fellow[25], Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society[26], Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering[27], Companion of the Order of Canada[28], Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[29], Turing Award[30], Honda Prize[31], IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award[32], Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research[33]
- Sex or gender: male[34]
- Doctoral student: Andriy Mnih[35], Richard S. Zemel[36], Radford M. Neal[37], Carl Edward Rasmussen[38], Brendan J. Frey[39], Yee Whye Teh[40], Ruslan Salakhutdinov[41], Ilya Sutskever[42], David C. Plaut[43], Christopher K. I. Williams[44], Volodymyr Mnih[45], Alberto Paccanaro[46], Steven J. Nowlan[47], Kevin Lang[48]
Why It Matters
Geoffrey Hinton has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] He is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]
He has been cited as an influence by Karl J. Friston[51], a neuroscientist[52], b. 1959[53], of United Kingdom[54], awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society[55], specialised in neurobiology[56] and Peter Dayan[57], a university teacher[58], b. 1965[59], awarded the The Brain Prize[60], specialised in computational neuroscience[61].
He is credited with the discovery of deep learning[62]; mixture of experts[63], a statistical model[64]; t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding[65], an algorithm[66]; restricted Boltzmann machine[67]; and mixture of experts model[68].
His notable doctoral advisees include Ilya Sutskever[69], a mathematician[70], b. 1986[71], of Israel[72], awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society[73], specialised in machine learning[74]; Peter Brown[75]; Ruslan Salakhutdinov[76]; Richard S. Zemel[77]; Radford M. Neal[78]; and Christopher K. I. Williams[79].
FAQs
Where was Geoffrey Hinton born?
Geoffrey Hinton was born in Wimbledon[1].
Who were Geoffrey Hinton's parents?
Geoffrey Hinton's father was Howard Everest Hinton[8].
What did Geoffrey Hinton do for work?
Geoffrey Hinton worked as a computer scientist[2], artificial intelligence researcher[3], university teacher[4], neuroscientist[5], and psychologist[6].
What awards did Geoffrey Hinton receive?
Honors received include Fellow of the Royal Society[20], IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award[21], Rumelhart Prize[22], and IJCAI Award for Research Excellence[23].
Who did Geoffrey Hinton influence?
Geoffrey Hinton has been cited as an influence by Karl J. Friston[51] and Peter Dayan[57].
What did Geoffrey Hinton discover?
Geoffrey Hinton is credited as discoverer of deep learning[62], mixture of experts[63], t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding[65], and restricted Boltzmann machine[67].