Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Nanaka Adachi ... Hinton, with a background in psychology, works in AI and developed “backpropagation” – a key part of machine learning that enables neural networks to ...

There is no Nobel prize category that clearly maps to the ... along with others such as neurobiology and cognitive psychology ...

“I failed at psychology and dropped out of physics — which is far more reputable.” The New York Times reached Dr. Hinton by phone shortly after he learned that he had won the Nobel Prize in ...

Hinton’s Nobel Prize-winning work has roots at UC San Diego. His connections to the university go back to his postdoctoral research in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the UC San Diego Department of ...