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| Description | Geoffrey Hinton is a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who received the 2018 Turing Award for his foundational work on deep learning. Often called the "Godfather of AI," he developed many of the techniques that enabled the current AI revolution, including the backpropagation algorithm, B… |
| Source URL | www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/ |
| Wiki ID | E149 |
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| Created | Mar 29, 2026, 10:41 PM |
| Updated | May 18, 2026, 11:15 AM |
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description | Geoffrey Hinton is a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who received the 2018 Turing Award for his foundational work on deep learning. Often called the "Godfather of AI," he developed many of the techniques that enabled the current AI revolution, including the backpropagation algorithm, B… |
website | www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/ |
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