John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton win Nobel Prize in physics

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for their pioneering work in the field of machine learning.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Tuesday the scientists were honored “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

Hopfield, whose research is carried out at Princeton University in the United States, was recognized for creating an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. He is American and Born on July 15, 1933, in Chicago, Illinois.

Hinton, who works at the University of Toronto, invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data, allowing it to perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures. Hinton is British Canadian. He was born in 1947 in London, UK.

Both scientists used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning. John Hopfeld created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data.

Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data, and perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures.