John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024.

Awards

American physicist John J. Hopfield and British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey E. Hinton were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 8, 2024.


      - Hopfield created an associative memory system that can store and reconstruct data patterns. In contrast, Hinton developed techniques enabling networks to autonomously identify data characteristics and carry out tasks like image recognition.

     

     

Main Points:-   (i) The prize amount of 11 million Swedish kronor will be equally divided between the laureates.

      (ii) John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were received the award "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks."


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