Geoffrey Hinton

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Geoffrey E. Hinton
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

Born: 6 December 1947, London, UK

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Toronto, Canada

Prize motivation: “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”

Prize share: 1/2

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