Geoffrey Hinton

1947– · British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist

Topics: learning, artificial intelligence

• I got Christianity at school and Stalinism at home. I think that was a very good preparation for being a scientist because I got used to the idea that at least half the people are completely wrong.

  — Geoffrey Hinton

• The reason hidden units in neural nets are called hidden units is that Peter Brown told me about hidden Markov models. I decided "hidden" was a good name for those extra units, so that's where the name "hidden" comes from.

  — Geoffrey Hinton