Geoffrey Hinton received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from University of Edinburgh in 1978 and spent five years as a faculty member at Carnegie-Mellon where he pioneered back-propagation, Boltzmann machines and distributed representations of words. In 1987 he became a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and moved to the University of Toronto. In 1998 he founded the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London, returning to the University of Toronto in 2001. His group at the University of Toronto then used deep learning to change the way speech recognition and object recognition are done. He currently splits his time between the University of Toronto and Google. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and in 2010 he received the NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal, Canada's top award in Science and Engineering.
Professor Hinton is a direct descendant of George Boole.
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