Geoffrey Hinton
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Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned hi
Hinton at his home in 2026
Hinton at NeurIPS 2025
George Boole
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George Boole was an English mathematician and philosopher often credited with revolutionizing logic by transforming it from a philosophical study of language into a mathematical system of algebraic eq
Geoffrey Hinton
…of pancreatic cancer in 2018. Hinton is the great-great-grandson of the mathematician and educator Mary Everest Boole and her husband, the logician George Boole. George Boole's work eventually became one of the foundations of modern computer science. Another great-great-grandfather of his was the surgeon and…
House and School at 3 Pottergate
Plaque from the house
Greyfriars, Lincoln, which housed the Mechanic's Institute
The house at 5 Grenville Place in Cork, in which Boole lived between 1849 and 1855, and where he wrote The Laws of Thought (picture taken during renovation)