AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has been named an ACM Fellow (Photo: Johnny Guatto)
, emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto, has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
The deep learning pioneer is among 68 inductees for 2023 who have each been recognized 鈥渇or transformative contributions to computing science and technology.鈥
鈥淎ll the 2023 inductees are longstanding ACM Members who were selected by their peers for groundbreaking innovations that have improved how we live, work, and play,鈥 .
The ACM Fellows program recognizes the top one per cent of ACM Members celebrating 鈥渢he exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field.鈥
Hinton鈥檚 groundbreaking research lies in deep learning and artificial neural networks 鈥 a field of artificial intelligence that mimics the way humans acquire certain types of knowledge.
Hinton鈥檚 recognition from the ACM as a Fellow is 鈥渇or conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.鈥
Hinton adds the ACM Fellow recognition to a list of accolades that includes an election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Companion of the Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Societies of Canada and London and the , widely considered to be the Nobel Prize of computing.