Connectionists: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

[Hans Liljenström]

It is with great pleasure and pride that the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (finally) awarded John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton the Nobel Prize in Physics this year.
https://www.kva.se/en/news/the-nobel-prize-in-physics-2024/

Interestingly, I asked John Hopfield, who was my postdoc host at Caltech in 1989-90, whether he thought he would eventually get the Nobel Prize, and he responded with a laugh, saying that there is no such prize for "artificial neural networks". Well, now there is. Congratulations to two pioneers, who deserve this prize so well.

With kind regards,
Hans Liljenstrom

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