2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal - Geoffrey Hinton

President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal, awarded in collaboration with the Royal Society of Edinburgh for exceptional impact on electronics and electrical engineering or related fields, to Geoffrey Hinton for groundbreaking contributions to Machine Learning and Neural Network Learning. Hinton’s work is still on the forefront today, such as speech and visual object recognition, plant monitoring, automated check verification and fraud detection. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html