Geoffrey Hinton(1947-)
Awarded the prize “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.
Physicist. Born on December 6, 1947 in Wimbledon, UK. Dr. Hinton is a 2018 Turing Award winner, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto.