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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gets UK knighthood for ‘services to artificial intelligence’
Google Deepmind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis has been awarded a knighthood in the U.K. for "services to artificial intelligence."
Hassabis was born in London in 1976, emerging as a prodigy in a number of disciplines, and reaching master status at chess by the time he was a teenager. He subsequently became lead programmer at fabled U.K. video game developer Bullfrog Productions; graduated from the University of Cambridge with first-class honors in Computer Science; and worked in various AI and computer science roles before gaining a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from University College London (UCL). Other notable figures from the technology world to receive knighthoods include Apple’s Jonathan “Jony” Ive back in 2011 for “services to design and enterprise.”
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