# Event Details - **Event Name**: The 'Godfather' of AI: Geoffrey Hinton on the New Frontier of Technology - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 05 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 05 Oct, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: The Godfather of AI: Geoffrey Hinton on the New Frontier of Technology October 5th,2026 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Speaker: Geoffrey Hinton Location: Gannon University Waldron Campus Center - 628 Peach St, Erie, PA 16501 Date/Time: Monday, October 5th 7:00-8:30pm Admission: Early Bird Pricing - General Admission $25.75 / Preferred Seating $51.50 Early Bird Pricing Ends September 15th. Get your tickets now!! Regular pricing: General Admission $36.05 / Preferred Seating $61.80 Geoffrey Hinton is the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence. Hinton has been called "the godfather of AI" and is considered one of the most important thought leaders on the emergence of AI and its implications for business and society. It was Hinton, in 2012, who created the technology that would become the foundation for the AI systems that are emerging as potential game-changers for business. But Hinton is not entirely a proponent of the rapid development of AI: Hinton's view is that the technology offers tremendous potential benefits to humankind, but we are at an important inflection point where society needs to think hard about how to restrict the use of AI to avoid potential pitfalls. Hinton received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1978. After five years as a faculty member at Carnegie-Mellon he became a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and moved to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto where he is now an emeritus professor. He has also held roles as a VP Engineering fellow at Google and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Vector Institute. Geoffrey Hinton was one of the researchers who introduced the backpropagation algorithm and the first to use backpropagation for learning word embeddings. His other contributions to neural network research include Boltzmann machines, distributed representations, time-delay neural nets, mixtures of experts, variational learning and deep learning. His research group in Toronto made major breakthroughs in deep learning that revolutionized speech recognition and object classification. Geoffrey Hinton is a fellow of the UK Royal Society and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His awards include the Nobel Prize in Physics (2024), the David E. Rumelhart prize, the IJCAI award for research excellence, the Killam prize for Engineering, the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt medal, the NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal, the IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Gold medal, the NEC C&C award, the BBVA award, the Honda Prize, and the Turing Award. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/erie/the-godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-on-the-new-frontier-of-technology/200030643343117 - **Event Categories**: Art, science-fair - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 1 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Erie - **state**: PA - **country**: United States - **location**: 3207 State St, Erie, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 16508 - **lat**: 42.10672 - **long**: -80.06958 - **full address**: 3207 State St, Erie, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 16508 ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: The 'Godfather' of AI: Geoffrey Hinton on the New Frontier of Technology - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/cb775afd168655f43c1ebba3770de228dc18bdabc473742c2fb9f8074563a35b-rimg-w1200-h675-dc080818-gmir?v=1788270677 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is The 'Godfather' of AI: Geoffrey Hinton on the New Frontier of Technology being held? - **A:** The 'Godfather' of AI: Geoffrey Hinton on the New Frontier of Technology takes place on Mon, 05 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Mon, 05 Oct, 2026 at 08:30 pm at 3207 State St, Erie, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 16508. - **Q**: Who is organizing The 'Godfather' of AI: Geoffrey Hinton on the New Frontier of Technology? - **A:** The 'Godfather' of AI: Geoffrey Hinton on the New Frontier of Technology is organized by Jefferson Educational Society. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The 'Godfather' of AI: Geoffrey Hinton on the New Frontier of Technology", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/cb775afd168655f43c1ebba3770de228dc18bdabc473742c2fb9f8074563a35b-rimg-w1200-h675-dc080818-gmir?v=1788270677", "startDate": "2026-10-05", "endDate": "2026-10-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/erie/the-godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-on-the-new-frontier-of-technology/200030643343117", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "3207 State St, Erie, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 16508", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "3207 State St, Erie, PA 16508-2821, United States", "addressLocality": "Erie", "addressRegion": "PA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "42.10672", "longitude": "-80.06958" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "The Godfather of AI: Geoffrey Hinton on the New Frontier of Technology\n\nOctober 5th,2026 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM\nSpeaker: Geoffrey Hinton\nLocation: Gannon University Waldron Campus Center - 628 Peach St, Erie, PA 16501 \n\nDate/Time: Monday, October 5th 7:00-8:30pm\n\nAdmission: Early Bird Pricing - Genera", "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Jefferson Educational Society", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/jefferson-educational-society/13579018", "description": "Jefferson Educational Society, Erie. 7,510 likes · 1,739 talking about this · 1,421 were here. 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