The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for "foundational discoveries" in machine learning (Kati Pohjanpalo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-08/two-scientists-share-physics-nobel-for-machine-learning
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