The Globe and Mail - 19.10.2019

DR. GEOFFREY HINTON

CELEBRATED FOR

COMPUTER SCIENCE’S

TOP HONOUR

BusinessandcomputerscienceleadersgatheredinTorontothisweektocelebrate Dr. Geoffrey Hinton and his

contributions to deep learning and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Hinton serves as Chief Scientific Advisor at the Toronto-based Vector Institute and earlier this year, won the field’s

top honour, the prestigious ACM A.M. Turing Award alongside Drs. Yoshua BengioandYannLeCun.Dr.Hintonisalso

VP and Engineering Fellow at Google and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.

DuringtheVectorInstitute’scelebrations,theUniversityofTorontoannounced the creation of three new deep
learningfacultypositionsinDr.Hinton’shonour.

The Vector Institute is an independent, not-for-profit corporation dedicatedtoadvancingartificialintelligence,excellinginmachine

anddeeplearning.TheVectorInstitute'svisionistodriveexcellenceand leadership in Canada's knowledge, creation, and use of AI to

fostereconomicgrowthandimprovethelivesofCanadians.TheVectorInstituteisfundedbytheProvinceofOntario,theGovernment

of Canada through the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy administered by CIFAR, andindustry sponsors from across the Canadian economy.

VectorInstitute.ai

TheVectorInstitutethanksallofitsindustrysponsorsforhelpingtheinstituterealizethetransformativepotentialofdeeplearning

and for establishing Canada as a leader in artificial intelligence.

Accenture
BMO Financial Group
Google
Loblaw Companies Ltd.
NVIDIA
RBC
Scotiabank
Shopify Inc.
TD Bank Group
Thomson Reuters
Uber

Air Canada

CIBC

CN

Deloitte

EY

Georgian Partners

Intact Financial Corporation

KPMG

Magna International

Manulife

PwC Canada

Sun Life Financial

TELUS

Thales

EllisDon Corporation

Linamar Corporation

Clearpath

Deep Genomics

Dessa

FreshBooks

integrate.ai

Layer 6

North

ROSS Intelligence

Wattpad

2018

MindBridge Analytics Inc.

Stradigi AI

tealbook

Wysdom AI

2019

Ada

BenchSci

CanvassAnalyticsInc.

Darwin AI

GoldSpot Discoveries Inc.

League

Surgical Safety Technologies

Platinum
Founding

Gold

Founding

Silver

Founding

Bronze

Founding

Industry sponsors of the Vector Institute

and special guests gathered in celebration

on October 16th(lefttoright):

Ed Clark

ChairoftheBoard,VectorInstitute

Anthony Viel

Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte LLP

Jim Smith

PresidentandChiefExecutiveOfficer,

Thomson Reuters

Garth Gibson

PresidentandChiefExecutiveOfficer,

Vector Institute

Eric Schmidt

Technical Advisor, Alphabet Inc.

Elio Luongo

ChiefExecutiveOfficerandSeniorPartner,

KPMG LLP

Aaron Regent

Chairman of the Board, Scotiabank

Brian Levitt

Chairman of the Board, TD Bank Group

Raquel Urtasun

Uber ATG Chief Scientist

Professor,UniversityofToronto

Co-Founder of the Vector Institute

Cameron Schuler

ChiefCommercializationOfficerand

VP Industry Innovation, Vector Institute

Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Open AI

—

Geoffrey Hinton delivered his Turing

Lecture to a crowd of researchers and

professionalsattheVectorInstitute’s

Evolution of Deep Learning Symposium

on October 16th.