Demis Hassabis
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27 July 1976 London, England |
| Nationality | British |
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| Education |
Christ's College, London (state comprehensive school) |
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| Thesis | Neural processes underpinning episodic memory (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eleanor Maguire |
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| Influences | Peter Molyneux |
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Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, computer game designer, entrepreneur, and world-class games player.
Demis Hassabis was born to a Greek Cypriot father and a Chinese Singaporean mother and grew up in North London. A child prodigy in chess, Hassabis reached master standard at the age of 13 with an Elo rating of 2300 (at the time the second highest rated player in the world Under-14 after Judit Polgár who had a rating of 2335) and captained many of the England junior chess teams.
Hassabis was educated at Christ's College, a state comprehensive school in East Finchley in North London. After completing his A-Level and S-level exams early at the age of 16, he began his computer games career at Bullfrog Productions, first level designing on Syndicate and then at 17 co-designing and lead programming on the classic game Theme Park, with the games designer Peter Molyneux. Theme Park, a celebrated simulation game, sold several million copies and won a Golden Joystick Award, and inspired a whole genre of management sim games. Hassabis then left Bullfrog to take up his place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied the Computer Science Tripos graduating in 1997 with a Double First from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. After running technology companies for several years, Hassabis returned to academia to obtain his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London (UCL) in 2009 and continued his neuroscience and artificial intelligence research as a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL and as a visiting scientist jointly at MIT and Harvard.
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