Jeffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Everest Hinton, FRS (English: Geoffrey Everest Hinton, December 6, 1947 -), also translated as Geoffrey Hinton, is a British-born Canadian computer scientist and psychologist, and a professor at the University of Toronto. Known for his contributions to neural networks. Hinton is one of the inventors of the backpropagation algorithm and the contrastive divergence algorithm (Contrastive Divergence). He is also an active promoter of deep learning and is known as the "Godfather of Deep Learning." Hinton won the 2018 Turing Award together with Joshua Bengio and Yang Likun for their contributions to deep learning. In 2024, Hinton and John Hopfield will jointly win the Nobel Prize in Physics.