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Geoffrey Hinton, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and a vice-president and engineering fellow at Google, has been awarded the distinguished 2019 Honda Prize for his pioneering work in the field of deep learning in artificial intelligence (AI) and for his contributions to applying that technology to the broader world.

To illustrate the mutually beneficial relationship between university and city, President Gertler recounted how Associate Professor Raquel Urtasun, a world renowned expert in machine perception and artificial intelligence, persuaded Uber to open a self-driving vehicle research lab in Toronto.

Congratulations to Assistant Professors Maryam Mehri Dehnavi, Murat Erdogdu, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Tovi Grossman, Fan Long and Joseph Jay Williams for receiving this year's Connaught New Researcher Award!