Congratulations to AI pioneers Sir Demis Hassabis CBE and Professor Geoffrey Hinton, who have both won Nobel Prizes this week, taking the total of Nobel laureates from the UCL community to 32.
Professor Geoffrey E. Hinton, who founded the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday (8 October), alongside Professor John J Hopfield, "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks". He is UCL’s 31st Nobel laureate. Read the full story on UCL News.
Sir Demis Hassabis, who graduated from UCL’s Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit in 2009 with a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, is UCL’s 32nd Nobel laureate. He is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, one of the world’s leading Artificial Intelligence research groups. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday (9 October), along with John Jumper and Professor David Baker, for their work on computational protein design and protein structure prediction. Read the full story on UCL News.
Demis Hassabis gives the 2023 UCL Prize Lecture at UCL; ’Using AI to Accelerate Scientific Discovery’
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