Professor Geoffrey E. Hinton, who founded the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday (8 October), alongside Professor John J Hopfield, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. He is UCL’s 31st Nobel laureate.
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Sir Demis Hassabis, who completed his PhD in the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology before working as a postdoc at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL, is UCL’s 32nd Nobel laureate. He is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, one of the world’s leading Artificial Intelligence research groups. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday (9 October), along with John Jumper and Professor David Baker, for their work on computational protein design and protein structure prediction.
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Sir Demis Hassabis (courtesy of Google DeepMind).
Professor Geoffrey E. Hinton Credit: Noah Berger, source Associated Press / Alamy
UCL joins forces with Google DeepMind to democratise access to AI education
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