Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto, before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In 2017, he co-founded and became the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.With David Rumelhart and Ronald J. Williams, Hinton was co-author of a highly cited paper published in 1986 that popularised the backpropagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural networks, although they were not the first to propose the approach. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Geoffrey Hinton has received more than 2,164,678 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Geoffrey Hinton is the 78th most popular computer scientist (up from 95th in 2019), the 2,641st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,094th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Computer Scientist.