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Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
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alive
- born
- 1947
- died
- no date on record
- age
- 78
- known for
- computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, university teacher
born 1947

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who geoffrey hinton is
Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI". He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.
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