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ARC Colloquium And Machine Learning (ML) Seminar Series with Geoffrey Hinton

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Algorithms & Randomness Center (ARC) Colloquium and Machine Learning (ML) Seminar Series

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Klaus 1116 E & W - 1:30 pm

Geoffrey Hinton – Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto and Distinguished Researcher, Google

Title: "Deep Learning" 

Abstract:

Dr. Hinton will give a brief history of deep learning explaining what it is, what kinds of task it should be good for and why it was largely abandoned in the 1990's. He will then describe how ideas from statistical physics were used to make deep learning work much better on small datasets. Finally Dr. Hinton will describe how deep learning is now used by Google for speech recognition and object recognition and how it may soon  be used for machine translation.

Bio:

Geoffrey Hinton received his BA in experimental psychology from Cambridge in 1970 and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh in 1978. He did postdoctoral work at Sussex University and the University of California San Diego and spent five years as a faculty member in the Computer Science department at Carnegie-Mellon University. He then became a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and moved to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He spent three years from 1998 until 2001 setting up the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London and then returned to the University of Toronto where he is a University Professor. He is the director of the program on "Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception" which is funded by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Geoffrey Hinton is a fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He is an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former president of the Cognitive Science Society. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sussex. He was awarded the first David E. Rumelhart prize (2001), the IJCAI award for research excellence (2005), the IEEE Neural Network Pioneer award (1998), the ITAC/NSERC award for contributions to information technology (1992) the Killam prize for Engineering (2012) and the NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal (2010) which is Canada's top award in Science and Engineering. Geoffrey Hinton designs machine learning algorithms. His aim is to discover a learning procedure that is efficient at finding complex structure in large, high-dimensional datasets and to show that this is how the brain learns to see. He was one of the researchers who introduced the back-propagation algorithm that has been widely used for practical applications. His other contributions to neural network research include Boltzmann machines, distributed representations, time-delay neural nets, mixtures of experts, variational learning, products of experts and deep belief nets. His current main interest is in unsupervised learning procedures for multi-layer neural networks with rich sensory input.

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  • Created By:Brittany Aiello
  • Created:11/12/2014
  • Modified By:Fletcher Moore
  • Modified:10/07/2016

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