Dr. Geoffrey Hinton

Professor Hinton, an acknowledged world authority in the field of cognitive neuroscience, is a pioneer in connectionism - the use of computer models to simulate self-adaptive neural networks and learning. A seminal paper co-authored in "Nature" in 1983 has been followed by many others, including recently, some highly original computational experiments on unsupervised learning - networks that learn simply by scanning the surrounding world. Through his many consulting activities and lectures, he is an effective transmitter of these ideas beyond the university, to industry and beyond.