doctoral_advisor thesis_year birth_place awards fields notable_students birth_date thesis_url residence known_for image article_title name thesis_title
h. christopher longuet-higgins 1977 wimbledon , london aaai -rrb- ijcai award for research excellence -lrb- 2005 -rrb- fellow -lrb- 1990 -rrb- rumelhart prize -lrb- 2001 neural computation , artificial intelligence , machine learning radford m. neal 06 december 1947 http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/8121 canada backpropagation , boltzmann machine , deep learning geoffrey hinton at ubc.jpg geoffrey hinton
 geoffrey hinton relaxation and its role in vision
geoffrey hinton

geoffrey -lrb- geoff -rrb- everest hinton frs -lrb- born 6 december 1947 -rrb- is a british-born cognitive psychologist and computer scientist , most noted for his work on artificial neural networks .
he now divides his time working for google and university of toronto .
he is the co-inventor of the backpropagation algorithm for training neural nets and is an important figure in the deep learning movement .
