Hinton to donate part of his Nobel winnings to create a new prize

The presidents of an annual science and technology conference have announced that the 2024 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, Geoffrey Hinton, will donate part of his winnings to create a new prize.

They said that the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems will present a prize of US$10,000 every year at this event.

It will be awarded to teams of two or more researchers under the age of 40 who write an article proposing a new theory of brain functioning.

The award will be named the Sejnowski-Hinton Prize, in honor of computational neurobiologist Terry Sejnowski and artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton.

Hinton received the Nobel Prize in physics with computer scientist John Hopfield earlier this week in Stockholm.

Mr. Hinton said he would also donate part of the 11 million Swedish krona (about $1.4 million Canadian) prize he and Hopfield will share to Water First, an organization that works to improve water quality. indigenous access to water.