Geoffrey Hinton

Biography

Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, renowned for his work on artificial neural networks that earned him the title "the Godfather of AI". He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and has co-authored a highly cited paper on the backpropagation algorithm. Hinton has also co-founded the Vector Institute and serves as its chief scientific advisor, and has worked at Google Brain from 2013 to 2023.