Out of the many contributions to the field of AI by Hopfield and Hinton, I will present the ideas of Hopfield network and Boltzmann machine, which are the fundamental models that got them the Nobel prize.

Jesus Cerquides is a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AI) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His previous positions include an assistant professorship at the University of Barcelona and University Pablo Olavide, Chief Technology Officer and board member at Intelligent Software Components S.A., and Associate Director at Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS AG). His research interests include probabilistic and causal machine learning, multi-agent systems, and democratic and AI-enhanced citizen science. He serves regularly as a senior PC member in major AI conferences such as IJCAI and AAAI. He is currently associate editor of the  Artificial Intelligence Journal.