Stockholm.-The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the second award of the year, for physicists from the universities of Princeton and Toronto, for their contribution to the development of tools that enable machine learning.
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the foundations of machine learning.
“The two winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the basis of today’s powerful machine learning,” the Nobel committee said in a press release.
Hopfield’s research is conducted at Princeton University and Hinton works at the University of Toronto.
Ellen Moons, a member of the Nobel committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said the two winners “used fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets.”
He said such networks have been used to advance research in physics and “have also become part of our daily lives, for example in facial recognition and language translation.”
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday, a day after two American scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of microRNA.
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year for providing the first split-second glimpse into the ultrafast world of spinning electrons, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or the diagnosis of diseases.
The 2023 prize went to French-Swedish physicist Anne L’Huillier, French scientist Pierre Agostini and Hungarian Ferenc Krausz for their work with the tiny part of each atom that revolves around the center and is fundamental to practically everything: chemistry , physics, our bodies and our devices.
Six days of Nobel announcements kicked off on Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the medicine prize for their discovery of tiny fragments of genetic material that serve as on-off switches inside cells that help control what cells do and when they do it.
If scientists can better understand how they work and how to manipulate them, it could one day lead to powerful treatments for diseases like cancer.
The physics prize is endowed with 11 million Swedish crowns ($1 million) from a legacy left by the creator of the award, the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. It has been awarded 117 times. Laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies that will take place on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death.
The Nobel announcements continue with the chemistry and physics prize on Wednesday and the literature prize on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics prize on October 14.
This Tuesday, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced in Stockholm, one day after this year’s season began with the recognition in Medicine of two American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle that regulates activity. of the genes.
The agenda also foresees that the Chemistry prize will be announced on Wednesday, October 9, the Literature prize will be on Thursday the 10th, the Peace prize will be announced on Friday, October 11 (in Oslo) and finally the Economics prize, which will be awarded on Monday. October 14.
In 2023, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to the Frenchman Pierre Agostini, the Austro-Hungarian Ferenc Krausz and the Swedish-French Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond light pulses for the study of the dynamics of electrons in matter.”Infobae.
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