Geoffrey Hinton to Donate Some of Nobel Winnings to Create New Annual Award

Nobel laureate in physics Geoffrey Hinton speaks during the Nobel Banquet in the City Hall in Stockholm, on Dec. 10, 2024. The Canadian Press/Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP

The chairs of an annual science and technology conference say Nobel Prize recipient Geoffrey Hinton is donating some of his winnings to create a new award.

They say of the Neural Information Processing Systems conference say the US$10,000 award will be handed out at the event each year.