Intelligent Systems Group Attends ESANN 2024
From October 9 to 11, 2024, the 32nd edition of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN) took place in Bruges, Belgium. The Intelligent Systems Group from the University of Groningen, represented by Prof. Michael Biehl and six PhD students, participated in the symposium and presented their latest research. The NEMO team of the expertisecenter Movement Disorders Groningen and the Intelligent Systems group are collaborating closely together to develop a diagnostic system for hyperkinetic movement disorders using machine learning.
On 8 october 2024, John J. Hopfield, the hero of Michael Biehls (scientific) youth, was awarded the Nobel prize in Physics, allong with Geoffrey E. Hinton, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
John Hopfield’s groundbreaking work pointed out fascinating mathematical analogies between disordered magnetic materials and systems of interacting neurons in the (later so called) Hopfield Model. This had an enormous effect on the advancement of our understanding of neural computation and inspired a generation of physicists to work on neural networks and the theory of machine learning. Similarly, Geoffrey Hinton investigated physics inspired neural network architectures and learning algorithms. He became and remains to be a leading figure in the area of machine learning.