Geoffrey Hinton

Awards & Honours

Awards Won

Honours

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Geoffrey Hinton's list of honors is extraordinary by any measure. He is one of a very small number of researchers to have won both the ACM Turing Award and the Nobel Prize. His 2018 Turing Award was shared with two of his former students, a rare testament to his mentorship. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics marked the first time the prize was awarded for work in artificial intelligence. He has also received Canada's highest scientific honor, the Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal, and the Royal Medal from the Royal Society. He holds multiple honorary doctorates and is a fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Canada, and several other prestigious academies.

AwardsHinton has received some of the highest honors in science and computing. In 2024 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with John J. Hopfield. In 2018 he received the ACM Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of Computing, jointly with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun. He was the first recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize in 2001. Other major awards include the Royal Society's Royal Medal, the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal, and the Killam Prize for Engineering.

Honours & Distinctions

Fellow of the Royal Society

Royal Society

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Royal Society of Canada

Elected Fellow

Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

AAAI

Elected Fellow

Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Elected Honorary Foreign Member

Honorary Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering

US National Academy of Engineering

Elected Honorary Foreign Member

Honorary Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences

US National Academy of Sciences

Elected Honorary Foreign Member

Honorary Doctorate from University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

Honorary Doctorate

Honorary Doctorate from University of Sussex

University of Sussex

Honorary Doctorate

Honorary Doctorate from University of Sherbrooke

University of Sherbrooke

Honorary Doctorate

Honorary Doctorate from University of Toronto

University of Toronto

Honorary Doctorate

Former President of the Cognitive Science Society

Cognitive Science Society

Served as President

Rankings & Lists

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TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI

TIME·2023

Records & Feats

First person to win both the Turing Award and the Nobel Prize in Physics

Awards·2024

Hinton is the only individual to have received both the ACM Turing Award (2018) and the Nobel Prize in Physics (2024), spanning computer science and physics.

First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for AI research

Historic First·2024

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was the first ever awarded for foundational work on artificial neural networks and machine learning.

AlexNet triggered the deep learning revolution

Career Milestone·2012

The 2012 AlexNet paper, co-authored with students Krizhevsky and Sutskever, achieved a dramatic win in the ImageNet competition and is widely considered the breakthrough that launched modern deep learning.