Birth: November 16, 1952
Major Academic Events: Geoffrey got a Bachelors in psychology(1970) and a Phd in artificial intelligence (1978), spent time in faculty at a computer science department. BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017); Companion of the Order of Canada (2018); ACM A. M. Turing Award (2018);Honda Prize (2019)
contributions to computer science: Known as the father of machine learning. Designs machine learning technology. Geoffrey later works for Google. Machine learning technology changes the way people live their lives today. Learned to master the extremely complex task of artificial intelligence. Computers are able to learn and grow on their own.
sources: Article title: Geoffrey E. Hinton: . Biographical Sketch Website title: Cs.utoronto.ca URL:
http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hinton/bio.htmlArticle title: Geoffrey E Hinton Website title: Awards.acm.org
https://awards.acm.org/award-winners/hinton_4791679_