Computer scientist, 2024 Nobel laureate in Physics
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Geoffrey Hinton is a London-born computer scientist who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Hopfield “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. At the time of the award he was affiliated with the University of Toronto.
Source: NobelPrize.org, checked 13 Oct 2026
On the record in UAB Reporter (quoting Geoffrey Hinton, 2016) · published Dec 2022
“People should stop training radiologists now. It’s just completely obvious within five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists”