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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the American John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, a Canadian citizen of British origin, who signed “studies that provide machine learning with artificial neural networks”.
At a press conference held on Tuesday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics were announced.
According to the release, Hopfield and Hinton, who developed the methods and artificial neural networks (ANN) that form the basis of machine learning with the help of physical science, received the award for “discoveries and fundamental inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Hopfield created an associative memory capable of storing and reconstructing images, information and other types of patterns in data, while Hinton invented a method capable of finding features in data without human intervention and thus performing tasks such as identifying specific elements in images.
– Who are John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton?
John Hopfield was born on July 15, 1933 in the US state of Illinois.
Hopfield, one of the founders of the Computation and Neural Systems doctoral program at the University of California Technology (Caltech) established in 1986, shared the Boltzmann Medal in Statistical Physics with Deepak Dhar in 2022.
Hopfield is a professor of molecular biology and professor of life sciences at Princeton University.
Geoffrey Hinton was born on December 6, 1947 in London, the capital of England. Although the British-Canadian computer scientist is known for his work on artificial neural networks, he is known as the “father of artificial intelligence” in the scientific community.
Hinton received the Turing Prize, called the “Nobel Prize of computing,” in 2018 along with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun.
Hinton, who worked at Google (Google Brain) until 2023, publicly announced his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the risks of AI technology.
Hinton is a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto.
– About the Nobel Prizes
Established on June 9, 1900 after the death of Swede Alfred Nobel, the prizes awarded by the Nobel Foundation to those who have served humanity are considered the most prestigious awards in the world.
The Nobel Prizes are awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institute and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals or organizations considered to be the most successful in five fields: physics, chemistry, literature, peace and medicine.
Furthermore, the Nobel Prize in Economics was first awarded in 1969, after the Swedish Central Bank decided in 1968 to award an economics prize in memory of Alfred Nobel.
The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year to the winners during a ceremony held on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.
In contrast, there have been several years when the awards were not awarded since their inception in 1901. Most of the 49 cancellations occurred during World War I and World War II.
The award ceremonies could not take place in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
*Translated from Turkish by Tuncay Çakmak
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