1982

John Hopfield

Hopfield networks

Showed how a network of simple units can store and recall patterns as associative memory. Nobel Prize in Physics 2024, shared with Geoffrey Hinton.

Filed under

• Neural nets

Key work

Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities ↗ (opens in new tab)

PNAS, 1982

Recognition

Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 ↗ (opens in new tab)

Citation: “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”

Sources

• Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities ↗ (opens in new tab)
• Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 ↗ (opens in new tab)
• John Hopfield on Wikipedia ↗ (opens in new tab)