2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to John H. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton
Oct 08, 2024
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John H. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning through artificial neural networks. The two Nobel Laureates used tools from physics to develop methods that form the foundation of modern-day powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created an associative memory capable of storing and reconstructing images and other patterns in data. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that autonomously identifies properties in data and performs tasks such as recognizing specific elements in images.