Geoffrey Hinton: When genius runs in the family

Widely considered as one of the godfathers of deep learning, Geoffrey Hinton was born in 1947 in Wimbledon, UK. Hinton's family has generations of overachieving scientists, much like Hinton himself. Hinton had mentioned an instance from his childhood when his mother told him, "Be an academic, or be a failure." Hinton's great-great grandfather was George Boole, the founder of Boolean logic and algebra. Boolean logic would later become the mathematical foundation for modern computers.  His wife, Mary Boole, was also a self-taught mathematician like George and a teacher of algebra and logic. After getting married to George, Mary too began contributing and advising him in his work which was unheard of for a woman in the mid-1800s. She even edited George's book, 'The Laws of Thought