What is Geoffrey Hinton?
{{Infobox scientist | birth_name = Geoffrey Everest Hinton | name = Geoffrey Hinton | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|FRS|FRSC|size=100%}} | image = Geoffrey Hinton at Collision 2024 in Toronto (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Hinton speaking in Toronto in 2024 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1947|12|06}}<ref name=whoswho>Anon (2015) {{Who's Who | title=Hinton, Prof. Geoffrey Everest | id = U20261 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]}} {{doi|10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.20261}}</ref> | birth_place = [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], London, England | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = Joanne<br/>{{marriage|Rosalind Zalin||1994|end=d.}}<br/>{{marriage|Jackie Ford|1997|2018|end=d.}} | partner = | children = 2 | father = [[H. E. Hinton]] | relatives = [[Colin Clark (economist)|Colin Clark]] (uncle) | fields = {{Plainlist| * [[Machine learning]] * [[Psychology]] * [[Artificial intelligence]] * [[Cognitive science]] * [[Computer science]]}} | work_institution = {{Plainlist| * [[University of Toronto]] * Google * [[Carnegie Mellon University]] * [[University College London]] * [[University of California, San Diego]] }} | education = {{Plainlist| * [[University of Cambridge]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<!--King's College Cambridge doesn't award degrees--> * [[University of Edinburgh]] (PhD)}} | doctoral_advisor = [[Christopher Longuet-Higgins]] | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = {{Plainlist| * [[Richard Zemel]]<ref name=zemphd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Richard Stanley|last=Zemel |title=A minimum description length framework for unsupervised learning |publisher=University of Toronto |year=1994 |oclc=222081343 |id={{ProQuest|304161918}}}}</ref> * [[Brendan Frey]]<ref name=brenphd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Brendan John|last=Frey |title=Bayesian networks for pattern classification, data compression, and