Carnegie Mellon University

Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton

Turing Award Winner, Cognitive Psychologist, Computer Scientist

Dickson Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture

Dr. Geoffrey Hinton presented a lecture titled "Fast Weights." Unlike the real brain, nearly all artificial neural networks have only two time scales: Neural activities change rapidly and the weights of connections between neurons change slowly. Many interesting computational properties  can be implemented by adding an overlay of weights that adapt rapidly and decay rapidly. Dr. Hinton will discuss some of these properties, including accessing old memories, implementing true recursion, and the Poincaré effect.

Dr. Hinton is the 2021 recipient of CMU's Dickson Prize in Science.