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Geoffrey Hinton
The godfather of deep learning; Turing and Nobel laureate.
b. 1947🇨🇦CanadaProfessor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Persisted with neural networks through two winters when the field had written them off. Co-authored the backpropagation paper, supervised the students who built AlexNet, and left Google in 2023 to speak freely about risk.
Known for
BackpropagationBoltzmann machinesAlexNetTuring Award 2018Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
4 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first
- 1987–now39 yrsUniversity of TorontoProfessor Emeritus
- 2013–202310 yrsGoogle BrainVP & Engineering Fellow
- 2012–20131 yrDNNresearchCo-founder
- 1982–19875 yrsCarnegie MellonProfessor
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No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.
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Studied underdoctoral or postdoctoral advisors
Christopher Longuet-Higgins
Taughtstudents and postdocs
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