Geoffrey Hinton Biography and Wiki
Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist well-known for his work on artificial neural networks. Since 2013 he divides his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto. In 2017, he co-founded and became the Chief Scientific Advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.
Geoffrey Hinton Age
Geoffrey is 73 years old as of 2020, he was born on 6 December 1947, Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. He celebrates his birthday on December 6 every year and his birth sign is Sagittarius.
Geoffrey Hinton Height and Weight
Geoffrey stands at an average height. He appears to be quite tall in stature of his photos, relative to his surroundings, which are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We will update this section when the information is available.
Education
Geoffery was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in experimental psychology. He continued his study at the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence in 1978 for research supervised by Christopher Longuet-Higgins.
Geoffrey Hinton Family
Geoffery is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hinton. Little is known about his family and it is also not known whether he has any siblings. This information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Geoffrey Hinton Wife
Geoffery was married to British Historian, Jackie Hinton. The couple tied the knot in 1997. However, after three years of their marriage, his wife contracted ovarian cancer and died in 1984. It is not yet clear to the public if, after the death of his wife, Geoffery married again. We are keeping tabs on this information and will be updated as soon as it is available.
Geoffrey Hinton Net Worth
Geoffrey’s net worth is publicly not available. His primary source of income is his career as a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist. Through his various sources of income, we believe that Geoffrey has been able to accumulate a good net worth but prefers to keep it private. We will update this section once this information is available.
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Geoffrey Hinton Wiki
- Full Names: Geoffery Hinton
- Popular As: Geoffery
- Gender: Male
- Occupation / Profession: Computer scientist
- Nationality: British-Canadian
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- Sexual Orientation: Straight
Geoffrey Hinton Birthday
- Age / How Old?: 73 years
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- Date of Birth: December 1947, Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom
- Place of Birth: December 6
- Birthday: Sagittarius
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- Height / How Tall?: Average
- Weight: Moderate
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Geoffrey Hinton Family and Relationship
- Father (Dad): Mr. Howard Hinton
- Mother: Mrs. Howard Hinton
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- Marital Status: Married or Single
- Wife/Spouse: Married to Jackie Hinton (1997-1984)
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Geoffrey Hinton Net Worth and Salary
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- Salary: Under Review
- Source of Income: His professional career as a scientist
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Geoffrey Hinton Computer Scientist
After his Ph.D., he worked at the University of Sussex, and (after difficulty finding funding in Britain) the University of California, San Diego, and Carnegie Mellon University. He was the founding director of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London and is currently a professor in the computer science department at the University of Toronto.
He holds a Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and is currently an advisor for the Learning in Machines & Brains program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Hinton taught a free online course on Neural Networks on the education platform Coursera in 2012. Hinton joined Google in March 2013 when his company, DNNresearch Inc., was acquired. He is planning to “divide his time between his university research and his work at Google”.
Hinton’s research investigates ways of using neural networks for machine learning, memory, perception, and symbol processing. He has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications. While Hinton was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University (1982–1987), David E. Rumelhart and Hinton, and Ronald J. Williams applied the backpropagation algorithm to multi-layer neural networks. Their experiments showed that such networks can learn useful internal representations of data.
In an interview of 2018, Hinton said that “David E. Rumelhart came up with the basic idea of backpropagation, so it’s his invention.” Although this work was important in popularizing backpropagation, it was not the first to suggest the approach. Reverse-mode automatic differentiation, of which backpropagation is a special case, was proposed by Seppo Linnainmaa in 1970, and Paul Werbos proposed to use it to train neural networks in 1974.
Geoffrey Hinton Awards and Achievements
Hinton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1998. He was the first winner of the Rumelhart Prize in 2001.In 2001, Hinton was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. He was the 2005 recipient of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence lifetime-achievement award. He has also been awarded the 2011 Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. In 2013, Hinton was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Université de Sherbrooke.
In 2016, he was elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering “For contributions to the theory and practice of artificial neural networks and their application to speech recognition and computer vision”. He also received the 2016 IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award.
He has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016) in the Information and Communication Technologies category “for his pioneering and highly influential work” to endow machines with the ability to learn.
Together with Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio, Hinton won the 2018 Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. In 2018, he was awarded a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Frequently Asked Questions About Geoffrey Hinton
Who is Geoffrey Hinton?
Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist well-known for his work on artificial neural networks. Since 2013 he divides his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto. In 2017, he co-founded and became the Chief Scientific Advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.
How old is Geoffrey Hinton?
Geoffrey is 73 years old as of 2020, he was born on 6 December 1947, Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom.
How tall is Geoffrey Hinton?
Geoffrey stands at an average height, he has not shared his height with the public. His height will be listed once we have it from a credible source.
What nationality is Geoffrey Hinton?
Geoffrey is a British-Canadian national.
Is Geoffrey Hinton married?
Geoffery was married to British Historian, Jackie Hinton. The couple tied the knot in 1997. However, after three years of their marriage, his wife contracted ovarian cancer and died in 1984.
How much is Geoffrey Hinton worth?
Geoffrey has not yet revealed his net worth. We will update this section when we get and verify information about the wealth and properties under his name.
Is Geoffrey Hinton dead or alive?
Geoffrey is still alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.
Where does Geoffrey Hinton live?
Because of security reasons, Geoffrey has not shared his precise location of residence. We will update this information if we get the location and images of his house.
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