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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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Awards & recognition
- Queen Elizabeth Prize — Engineering · 2025
- Nobel Prize in Physics · 2024
- ACM Fellow · 2023
- Princess of Asturias Award — Technical and Scientific Research · 2022
- Dickson Prize in Science · 2021
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- Honda Prize · 2019
- Companion of the Order of Canada · 2018
- Turing Award · 2018
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award · 2016
- IEEE Maxwell Award · 2016
- IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award · 2014
- honorary doctor of the University of Sherbrooke · 2013
- honorary doctor of the University of Sussex · 2011
- Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal — Science and Engineering · 2010
- IJCAI Award — Research Excellence · 2005
- Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society · 2003
- honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh · 2001
- Rumelhart Prize · 2001
- Fellow of the Royal Society · 1998
- IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award · 1998
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada · 1996
- AAAI Fellow · 1990
