I would be remiss if I did not mention the University of Toronto's Geoffrey Hinton today, co-winnder of the Nobel Prize along with John Hopfield, for work in the development of neural networks. "Hinton was selected for the high-profile award for his use of the Hopfield network – invented by his co-laureate – as the foundation for a new network called the Boltzmann machine that can learn to recognize elements within a given type of data." Long-time readers will know of my own enthusiasm for the approach, despite the scepticism of cognitive theorists. See also this press release from the Swedish Academy.
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