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Geoffrey Hinton, a University Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto and University College, has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. Widely regarded as the “godfather of AI,” Hinton shared the prize with John J. Hopfield of Princeton University for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.
Award-winning artist, writer and educator Richard Fung is UC’s 2024 Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Fung lives and works in Toronto.
Daniel Honciuc Menendez was 11 years old when he took part in a summer program in theoretical physics at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ont., in 2019.
