Nobel Prize in Physics to Professors John Hopfield and Jeffrey Hinton

Professors John Hopfield and Jeffrey Hinton have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday afternoon.

John Hopfield is a professor at the University of Princeton and Jeffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto.

They were awarded for fundamental discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” pic.twitter.com/94LT8opG79
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