Geoffrey Hinton (photo by Johnny Guatto)
Geoffrey Hinton recognized with 2024 VinFuture Grand Prize
Published: December 9, 2024
Geoffrey Hinton, a Emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto, has been named one of five recipients of the 2024 VinFuture Grand Prize.
The US$3-million prize is presented by the Vietnam-based non-profit in recognition of scientific advances that support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
Hinton, widely regarded as the "godfather of AI," was recognized for his research on neural networks and deep learning algorithms. He shares the VinFuture Grand Prize with Université de Montréal's Yoshua Bengio, Stanford University's Fei-Fei Li, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun (Jensen) Huang and Facebook AI Research scientist Yann LeCun.
In a video message, Hinton said he was honoured to share the award with such an esteemed group of researchers – including his fellow A.M Turing Award-winners Bengio and LeCun. “The three of us spent our whole lives developing the technology of neural networks,” Hinton said. “I’m very happy to see that the VinFuture Prize recognizes the contributions of Jensen Huang in developing the kind of compute and software required for artificial intelligence, and Fei-Fei Li in providing the big data that was needed to prove that it worked.”
The recognition comes on the heels of Hinton receiving the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
