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Geoffrey Hinton
Researcher
Turing Award 2018, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
Backpropagation pioneer, Turing laureate and 2024 Nobel laureate in physics. His 2022 'mortal computation' proposal argues for analog hardware whose weights die with the device, a break from the digital substrate every camp assumes.
Known for Backpropagation; AlexNet; The Forward-Forward Algorithm (2022)
Argues for
Other substrates 'Mortal computation': analog hardware whose weights are tied to the device, learned with local rules like forward-forward, as a cheaper substrate than backprop on digital chips.
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dates not recordedUniversity of Toronto, Professor emeritus