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Geoffrey Hinton

1947 - Today

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Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, and cognitive psychologist known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI". Hinton is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the many risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In 2017, he co-founded and became the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Geoffrey Hinton is the 12th most popular computer scientist (up from 52nd in 2019), the 727th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,978th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Computer Scientist. Learn more about Geoffrey Hinton's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Geoffrey Hinton ranks 12 out of 245. Before him are John McCarthy, Barbara Liskov, Dennis Ritchie, Frances E. Allen, Donald Knuth, and Edsger W. Dijkstra. After him are Niklaus Wirth, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Linus Torvalds, Ray Kurzweil, Marvin Minsky, and John Cocke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Geoffrey Hinton ranks 59. Before him are Ron Dennis, Farrah Fawcett, Dick Advocaat, Melanie, Stan Kroenke, and Mykola Azarov. After him are Joe Morton, Jonathan Banks, Kevin Kline, Richard Griffiths, Tostão, and Steve Howe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Hinton ranks 727 out of 8,785. Before him are Mairead Maguire (1944), Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley (1508), John Rhys-Davies (1944), Philippa of Lancaster (1360), Antony Hewish (1924), and Albert Finney (1936). After him are William Shockley (1910), George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859), James Edward Smith (1759), Herbert C. Brown (1912), Aubrey Beardsley (1872), and Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Hinton ranks 3. Before him are Alan Turing (1912), and Tim Berners-Lee (1955). After him are Edgar F. Codd (1923), Maurice Wilkes (1913), Paul Graham (1964), James H. Wilkinson (1919), Martin Fowler (1963), Robin Milner (1934), Alan Cox (1968), Stephen Wolfram (1959), and Karen Spärck Jones (1935).

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