A Kalamazoo College faculty member and expert in artificial neural networks, sometimes referred to as artificial intelligence, will discuss two of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics recipients at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Olds-Upton Hall, room 207. 

Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies Péter Érdi will talk about the work of John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton in an address titled “Nobel Prize for Physics in 2024: Interdisciplinary Science, Neurophysics and Learning Machines.” Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Hinton invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data and perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures. 

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, email Kristen.Eldred@kzoo.edu.