2024 Physics Nobel Prize Announced

• John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to machine learning and artificial neural networks.
• The award was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
• The work of the laureates focuses on the theoretical foundations of machines that can learn without human teaching and use their knowledge to answer questions.
• Professor Hopfield developed the Hopfield network, a type of recurrent neural network, based on Hebbian learning.
• The rules of a Hopfield network are based on the physics of atoms, each producing its own small magnetic field.