Geoffrey Hinton Born in London

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Geoffrey Everest Hinton was born on December 6, 1947, in London, England. He studied experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge and earned a doctorate in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. Hinton spent much of his academic career investigating artificial neural networks at a time when the approach was outside the mainstream of artificial-intelligence research. His work with colleagues and students contributed to methods for training multilayer neural networks, Boltzmann machines, distributed representations, and later deep-learning systems. Research by Hinton's group at the University of Toronto was closely connected with the 2012 ImageNet breakthrough that demonstrated the power of deep convolutional neural networks for image recognition. He shared the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun. In 2024, Hinton and John Hopfield received the Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational work enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.