Nobel Prize in physics awarded to John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton for machine learning discoveries

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries that enabled machine learning. © Nobel Prize Outreach

The Nobel Prize in physics was on Tuesday awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto for their “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.