# Geoffrey Hinton (@geoffrey-hinton)

Geoffrey Hinton is a computer scientist and cognitive scientist whose research helped revive and advance learning in artificial neural networks. His work spans distributed representations, Boltzmann machines, backpropagation-based learning, deep belief networks, and model compression.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Geoffrey Hinton's public record._

## Topics

- [Boltzmann Machines](/@geoffrey-hinton/boltzmann-machines.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Deep Learning and Distillation](/@geoffrey-hinton/deep-learning-and-distillation.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Learning Distributed Representations](/@geoffrey-hinton/learning-representations.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/bio.html
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/hinton/facts/
- blog: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hinton_4791679.cfm
- blog: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531

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