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How UC Faculty Member Professor Geoffrey Hinton Came to Join Google

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Geoffrey Hinton

University College faculty member Geoffrey Hinton, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google, is one of the founding fathers of artificial intelligence. He is the focus of this excerpt from an upcoming book which explores the fascinating story of how he came to join Google.