Today, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton received the Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking statistical methods that have advanced physics, chemistry, biology, and more. In th

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been honoured with the Nobel Prize for Medicine. The Nobel Prize committee decided in favour of their "groundbreaking discovery" of "microRNA".

Hinton, 76, helped develop a technique in the 1980s known as backpropagation instrumental in training machines how to 'learn' by fine-tuning errors until they disappear.

Instead of giving the physics prize to pioneers in physics, the academy on Tuesday gave the award to Princeton professor John Hopfield and University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton for their work on AI and machine learning.

Similar flexibility, though in an area with far more profound consequences than ethology, has been demonstrated with regard to this year’s physics prize. Showing a sense of timeliness not always apparent in its deliberations,

John J. Hopfield was awarded the honor alongside Geoffrey E. Hinton, a British-Canadian professor at the University of Toronto, in Canada.