A collection of some of John Hopfield’s lectures and interviews.

2020

Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology - Lex Fridman Podcast

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Duration: 1hr 13 mins

Interview with John "whose life's work weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics." 

Audience: Anyone interested in a conversation with John Hopfield about science, technology, philosophy and consciousness. 

 

 

 

 

2019

Mind From Machine - The Franklin Institute

Duration: 4 mins

Presentation about John and his work at the Franklin Institute ceremony where he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics. The “machine learning” revolution that has brought us self-driving cars, facial recognition and robots who learn can be traced back to John Hopfield, whose career is as fascinating as the technologies his ideas helped foster.

Audience: Anyone interested in science. 

 

 

2016

Emergence, dynamics, and behaviour - University of Cambridge

Duration: 40 minutes
 

A talk given at the Symposium to celebrate the work of Professor Sir David MacKay FRS at Cambridge University, Cambridge UK
Audience: physicists, engineers, computer scientists, and neurobiologists

 

 

 

 

2014

NIPS Conference Montreal 2014 - Posner lecture

Duration: 50 minutes

A Posner lecture given at the NIPS conference in Montreal.
Audience: computer scientists, electrical engineers, computational neurobiologists

 

 

 

 

 

1998

Biological Dynamics of the Mind - Princeton University

Duration: 35 min.
 

Talk given at Princeton University in an Alumni Symposium
Non-mathematical presentation for a diverse audience, beginning with the idea of emergent behavior... and ending with psychological associative memory.

 

 

 

 

1990

John Hopfield - Aspen Center for Physics

Duration: 30 minutes
 

A short talk and conversation with Nick DeWolf arranged and edited by DeWolf for public television broadcast (channel 12, Aspen CO)
Audience: anyone interested in science or computers

 

 

 

 

1988

Artificial Neural Networks and Speech Processing - Bellcore

Duration: ~ 1 hr + considerable discussion
 

A colloquium at Bellcore (a communications technology company transiently formed in the breakup of AT&T in 1984)
 

Audience: non-specialist engineers and scientists interested in the possibility of useful 'neural networks'.
Hopfield is introduced by John Worlock.

 

 

1983

Collective Properties of Neuronal Networks - Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA with Corporate Associates of the American Institute of Physics

Duration: 47 minutes
 

The “machine learning” revolution that has brought us self-driving cars, facial recognition and robots who learn can be traced back to John Hopfield, whose career is as fascinating as the technologies his ideas helped foster.
 

Audience: anyone interested in science or computers