Geoffrey Hinton to Use Portion of Nobel Prize Winnings to Establish New Yearly Award

December 13, 2024 TruthUSA

The chairs of an annual science and technology conference announced that Nobel Prize recipient Geoffrey Hinton is donating a portion of his winnings to establish a new award.

They revealed that at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference, a US$10,000 award will be presented annually to teams of two or more researchers under the age of 40 who submit a paper proposing an innovative theory on how the brain functions.

This award will be named the Sejnowski-Hinton Prize in honor of Terry Sejnowski, a computational neurobiologist, and Geoffrey Hinton, an AI pioneer.

Recently, Hinton was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics alongside computer scientist John Hopfield in Stockholm.

Hinton has also pledged to donate a portion of the 11 million Swedish kronor prize money (approximately $1.4 million Canadian dollars) he and Hopfield received to Water First, an organization dedicated to improving indigenous water access.