Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, he co-founded and became the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.

Hinton was born on 6 December 1947, he graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in experimental psychology. He was awarded a PhD for research in AI.

He was the founding director of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London. He is a professor in the computer science department at the University of Toronto.

Hinton received the 2018 Turing Award, referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing", together with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, for their work on deep learning.