COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Geoffrey Hinton

1947 - Today

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Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist, known for his work on artificial neural networks which earned him the title as the "Godfather of AI". Hinton is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. 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 many risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Geoffrey Hinton has received more than 2,398,729 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Geoffrey Hinton is the 52nd most popular computer scientist (up from 78th in 2019), the 1,977th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,635th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

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  • 4.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Geoffrey Hinton ranks 52 out of 245. Before him are John Cocke, James Gosling, Brian Kernighan, Nolan Bushnell, Fred Brooks, and Leslie Lamport. After him are Edwin Catmull, Vernor Vinge, Don Norman, Warren Weaver, Larry Wall, and Ole-Johan Dahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Geoffrey Hinton ranks 242. Before him are Benoît Jacquot, Petra Kelly, Bogdan Tanjević, Riccardo Fogli, Hristo Bonev, and Graham Bonnet. After him are Soe Win, Marinho Peres, Marcello Semeraro, Regina Duarte, Novruz Mammadov, and Viktor Klima.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Hinton ranks 1,977 out of 8,785. Before him are Cary Elwes (1962), Harry Andrews (1911), Ralph Erskine (1914), Tommy Taylor (1932), Graham Bonnet (1947), and Augustus Pugin (1812). After him are Lord Guildford Dudley (1536), Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757), Roger Hodgson (1950), Cynewulf of Wessex (750), Edith Pargeter (1913), and Paul W. S. Anderson (1965).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Hinton ranks 5. Before him are Alan Turing (1912), Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Edgar F. Codd (1923), and Maurice Wilkes (1913). After him are James H. Wilkinson (1919), Robin Milner (1934), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Richard Garriott (1961), Paul Graham (1964), and David Marr (1945).

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