Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Man who became distraught after viewing footage of the fatal shooting of his son crashed into officer the next day The distraught father of an 18-year-old shot and killed by police in Cincinnati allegedly killed a police officer with his car less than 24 hours after the death of his son The double killing has shocked the Ohio city amid ongoing concerns about US law enforcement’s involvement in lethal encounters with citizens The incident began last Thursday with the shooting death of Ryan Hinton who police said had appeared to point a gun at an officer as he fled from a stolen vehicle with three other people Body camera footage released by police shows an officer shouting: “He’s got a gun The blurry and unclear footage then shows Hinton emerging from between two dumpsters When Hinton’s family viewed the footage at a meeting with police was present at the meeting and they were understandably distraught as they watched the bodycam video,” a statement from the family’s lawyers said “After the meeting with the police department Ryan Hinton’s father left in his own vehicle and that was the last we heard from him until learning about the tragic incident involving a law enforcement officer who was working a traffic detail near the University of Cincinnati.” That incident happened on Friday afternoon when a police officer – who has not yet been named publicly – was hit by a car as he directed traffic at an intersection Police identified the driver of that vehicle as the teen’s 38-year-old father He was later charged with aggravated murder The slain police officer was not believed to have been involved with the killing of Ryan Hinton “This is a horrific tragedy on both sides … This family lost their son, and this police officer lost his life,” Michael Wright, the Hinton family attorney, told the Cincinnati Enquirer. Prosecuting attorney Ryan Nelson called the ordeal a "calculated and premeditated" incident Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also worked in broadcast television as a reporter for Hawaii-based news station KHON2 News. 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Ryan Hinton’s family distanced themselves from the actions of his father who is accused of killing a sheriff’s deputy the day after his son was shot and instead said they are seeking answers about the fatal police shooting Surrounded by Hinton’s relatives, the family’s attorney, Michael Wright, called the body camera footage of the May 1 shooting “disturbing” and said it is not clear whether the officer who shot Hinton was in imminent danger "This is not as cut and dry as this officer should have pulled out his gun and shot at Ryan," Wright said during the May 5 press conference More: Frame-by-frame review of body cam video from fatal East Price Hill police shooting was shot twice by Cincinnati police during a stolen car investigation and died shortly after Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge has described the shooting as “six quick seconds” and said the officer who fired at Hinton believed the man pointed the gun at him during the quick encounter The department has not released the name of the officer who shot Hinton, citing Marsy's Law, legislation meant to protect victims of crimes The next day, May 2, police say Hinton’s father, Rodney Hinton Jr., killed Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputy Larry Henderson by striking him with a car Wright called the episode a tragedy and offered his condolences to the deputy but made clear he is not representing Hinton’s father, who is charged with murder “We’re trying to get the family some answers,” Wright said Officials say parallel investigations into the shooting are underway by the Cincinnati Police Department and the Citizen Complaint Authority Wright asked people to "relax" and not rush to judgment called on the community to forgive the Cincinnati police officer who shot Ryan “I saw the officer scared and I saw my grandson scared,” Hinton said of the body camera footage “What I saw was two people who made a mistake.” Four days after Ryan’s death, his family remembered the man as a “jokester” and a loving person. He was a student at Dohn Community High School before the charter school’s sudden closure in March gentle giant that played with everybody all the time," Hinton's grandmother Larkin also called for more diversity training in police departments "We as Black people don't deserve to be killed just because we're running away from the police," she said Funeral arrangements for Ryan have not yet been made More: Father accused of killing sheriff's deputy after police fatally shot son. What we know Armstrong Williams takes on the news of the week and asks the questions you want answered. Don’t miss our weekly town hall. Ohio deputy fatally struck by father whose son was killed by police The deputy was outside of his car at the time of the collision after which he was taken to UC Medical Center in critical condition but died soon after Hinton appeared in court on Saturday and was set to return on May 6 for a bond hearing saying the father and family members met at the police chief's office Friday morning to review the bodycam footage of an officer shooting the teenager was present at the meeting and they were understandably distraught as they watched the bodycam video," the attorney's office stated "After the meeting with the police department Ryan Hinton's father left in his own vehicle and that was the last we heard from him until learning about the tragic incident involving a law enforcement officer who was working a traffic detail near the University of Cincinnati," the release added The law firm called it an "unimaginable tragedy" for the community and offered "heartfelt condolences to the family and colleagues of the officer." Hamilton County Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey said Deputy Henderson was retired but still served at times as a special deputy “In Deputy Henderson’s early tenure as a Sheriff’s Deputy I recognized his talent for teaching and presentation Larry began his journey as a Sheriff’s Office trainer early in his career," McGuffey said "He developed an expertise and became an excellent trainer he trained divisions of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office that included hundreds of deputy sheriffs His ability to relate to and touch officers’ lives was extraordinary We will continue to honor Larry’s life of service.” The sheriff's office added that Henderson’s badge number _____Editor's note: The National News Desk's Alexx Altman-Devilbiss contributed to this article Search autocomplete is currently not responding If you’re looking for a welcoming community and a strong and growing economy Hinton is ready for new and relocating businesses  Come see what our community has to off.. 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The Town of Hinton General Municipal Election 2025 will be held on October 20 Voters will elect one mayor and six councillors to govern the Town of Hinton for the following four years Do you provide sales and services in Hinton?  The Town of Hinton has several tender opportunities open for qualified contractors with more coming throughout the year.  the lane swim schedule will be temporarily adjusted due to a private rental The pool area will be closed to the public from 11:30 a.m public lane swimming will only be available from .. The Town of Hinton would like to inform you that the pool will be closed to the public at select times during the month of May due to school swimming lesson rentals.  Notify Me allows you to subscribe to an unlimited number of email lists Receive email or text message updates regarding the information you have requested Use Citizen Request Tracker to notify us about a general concern Visitors can also log in to check on the progress of existing requests Phone: 780-865-6000 Share on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInCINCINNATI (WXIX) - The lawyers for the family of the 18-year-old who died in East Price Hill during a police investigation say it is unclear if officers were ever in “imminent danger” when one officer fired his weapon was identified by Cincinnati police as the suspect they say had a semi-automatic handgun visible when an officer shot him May 1 in East Price Hill Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said at a May 2 press conference The fatal shooting with police stemmed from a stolen vehicle investigation Attorney Michael Wright said the facts that Ryan Hinton had a gun and was in a stolen vehicle did not mean he had to die so you can open carry in Ohio," Wright stated Monday Being in a stolen car doesn’t mean you should be shot and killed.” Wright said what happened in the parking lot in East Price Hill is “not so cut and dry.” The attorney for the Hinton family said the video they were shown of the officer’s interaction with Ryan Hinton makes it “hard to determine whether or not that officer was in imminent danger.” Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police President Ken Kober said the officer felt threatened as Ryan Hinton ran towards them says what he saw from the officer’s body camera was “an emotional mistake by everybody.” The grandfather said it did not look like the police were there to kill The Hinton family’s lawyers said they have requested more video from the officer-involved shooting and will investigate A few hours after Ryan Hinton’s family saw the body camera video of their son’s shooting used his car to “intentionally” murder a Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office deputy The deputy was identified Sunday as Larry Henderson He had been with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office for 33 years See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? 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Send it to us here with a brief description Don’t worry if your studies take a winding path And know that learning never stops – not even when you earn a Nobel Prize He reflected on his academic journey and answered questions submitted by an online audience of more than 1,400 participants who tuned in from 87 countries Broadcast from Hart House on the St. George campus, the conversation between Hinton and U of T President-designate Melanie Woodin who is on leave as dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science, touched on the joys and challenges of academic life a fourth-year student from Singapore who is double-majoring in drama and linguistics moderated the talk and posed questions submitted by the students – many of whom later shared their favourite moments and takeaways via a post-event survey Here are three key themes that emerged from the conversation and virtual Q-and-A: It can be daunting for incoming students to figure out which academic path they want to take conflicting advice from family and friends Hinton recommends following your curiosity – and asking questions.  “You have to have something you’re really curious about,” he said “A lot of undergraduates decide what subject they want to do there was a particular problem I was interested in – which is Hinton added that the problem fascinated him when he was 16 – and still drives him today “It’s still the thing – we still don’t understand how the brain works Hinton’s advice resonated with students. “I learned that you have to follow your curiosity,” said one after the event Another noted that “that although his path … may look like it went all over the place it’s because he was driven by his curiosity about how the mind worked and wasn’t afraid to change paths if he felt he could learn more about what he was interested in somewhere else.” noted that U of T's vast array of courses offer plenty of opportunities for students to follow their current interests and discover new ones. “I really encourage students to look at the course calendar and take a wide variety of courses in your first year – because chances are you're going to find your passion for something.” Questioning if you’re on the right academic path. Switching up courses and programs All are common student experiences – and Hinton was no exception.  “It was the first time I’d lived away from home It was the first time I’d been in a place where I wasn’t one of the more intelligent ones – everybody was smart there,” Hinton said of his first year at the University of Cambridge “I found it very difficult and I left after a month.” Hinton said his interest in the workings of the brain led him to switch programs several times he said it wasn’t until grad school that he began focusing on AI – the field which he would ultimately help revolutionize although it seemed completely chaotic at the time doing physics and physiology and philosophy and psychology was all good background for what I did who even took up carpentry at one point. “If your start at university is chaotic Hinton also urged students not to be discouraged when they encounter setbacks I think as long as you follow your curiosity “It was nice to hear that even a Nobel laureate such as Professor Hinton had made so many erratic decisions for undergrad in terms of picking and dropping multiple courses," said one “It helps me realize that it is OK to be messy and things eventually clear themselves up if you follow your curiosity.” Hinton urged students to let their personal learning styles determine how they study Hinton revealed that he struggles to read academic papers because he gets easily distracted and that his approach is to solve problems first and read the academic literature afterwards – in contradiction to common advice and practice “I think both [approaches] are correct because it depends on who you are,” Hinton said “Some people like reading a lot and acquiring lots of knowledge and others are puzzle-solvers like me – they don’t like reading lots of stuff I think there’s huge variation in how you should study.” Hinton also revealed that he struggled with absorbing math – a source of encouragement for some members of the audience.  “I’m someone who isn’t good at math and doesn’t enjoy reading,” said one student “but I’ve always been curious about things and have a strong desire to pursue academia I wasn’t sure if I was a good fit until Professor Hinton shared his personal experience learning methods and pathways can vary depending on the person.” Woodin – a U of T alumna and renowned neuroscientist who is a professor in the Faculty of Arts & Science’s department of cell and systems biology – added that one of the keys to a fulfilling university experience lies in finding community extracurricular activities or student clubs you’re outside of the smaller cohort of students that you had in high school classrooms You’re going to meet a lot of other people and you’re going to learn things together,” she said “It’s probably going to be more fun if you do it together.” CINCINNATI — The family of 18-year-old Ryan Hinton who was fatally shot by a Cincinnati police officer on Thursday held a press conference on Monday to express their love for Ryan and to raise questions about his death Several of Ryan's family members spoke during the press conference many of whom urged the community to wait for further investigation before rushing to judgment "I seen two scared people," said Ryan's grandfather "I seen the officer scared and I seen my grandson scared So it's an unfortunate incident that happened I didn't see the police there trying to kill What I seen was two persons made a mistake My grandson made a mistake in being there and the officer he was trying to get back to his family too one of the attorneys with The Cochran Firm who is representing Ryan's family said his office is working to conduct their own investigation into the shooting we met with the police chief of Cincinnati and we viewed the body cam video of what happened with the shooting with Ryan," said Wright "We stayed at the chief's office for about an hour and a half and what we saw was disturbing." Wright pointed out that Cincinnati police only showed the body camera footage of one officer — the one who fired the shots that killed Ryan Hinton He said his office has requested to see all body camera footage from that morning and other public records that could help them analyze what happened WCPO 9 has also requested that body camera footage "We believe that this incident should be investigated," said Wright "It's not as cut and dry as this officer should have pulled out his gun and shot Ryan said she doesn't believe the shooting should have happened "I can't even express how I feel right now about — I'm angry because it shouldn't have ever happened," said Larkin "I want to find out exactly what steps was taken and the protocol And if everything comes out that it's not what it should have been we need to do something about change and training and diversity and understanding us as a Black culture." gentle giant" who always had time for his siblings and often spent time playing video games with them She said he made it a point to play with each and every child in the family teaching them different games and including them Hear more from Tonya Larkin in the player below: we don't deserve to be killed just because we're running away from the police," said Larkin said lawyers plan to look closely into the shooting to scrutinize whether Cincinnati Police Department's policies were appropriately followed there's procedures and there are policies that require those who hold life and death in their hands to move in particular ways." Rucker said they aren't trying to decide Ryan's innocence or guilt in the moments before the shooting — they're only looking at whether or not the officer who shot him properly followed procedure and protocol "We are looking for the answer through our investigation of whether or not it was proper whether or not the policies were followed appropriately and whether or not by law and by facts that that tragic death was considered in the eyes of the law as justifiable," said Rucker "I can promise you under no circumstance are the family members who are here will ever believe that it was justifiable." Wright said there's plenty of healing that needs to happen all around and he urged people to give the investigation time He said they don't know what next steps will be but he said it's possible it could be filing a lawsuit; Wright said they are working to get all the information they can before making any determinations Watch the full press conference in the player below: One day after Ryan was fatally shot, his father, Rodney Hinton Jr., allegedly crashed a vehicle into retired Hamilton County Sheriff's Deputy Larry Henderson while he was directing traffic during commencement at the University of Cincinnati Ryan's family declined to speak about Henderson's death other than to offer prayers and condolences to his family and loved ones Cincinnati police showed family members of Ryan Hinton the CPD body camera footage on the morning of Friday Cincinnati police held a press conference to release the footage to the public That body camera footage showed a Cincinnati officer chasing the 18-year-old before firing multiple shots Theetge said Ryan was hit by two bullets — one that went through his arm and into his side and another that went through his chest and out his back allegedly drove his vehicle into Henderson at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr where Henderson was working a traffic detail Rodney Hinton Jr. appeared in court Saturday morning with dozens of deputies packing the room to show support for their former colleague Hinton is being held in Clermont County Jail without bail until his next hearing on Tuesday has been charged with aggravated murder for the death of Henderson Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said during a news conference that the sheriff's deputy was hit by a car being driven by the father of 18-year-old Ryan Hinton The crash comes a day after police fatally shot Hinton in East Price Hill during a car theft investigation just a few hours before the beginning of graduation ceremonies for the University of Cincinnati It happened near the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Burnet Woods in the CUF neighborhood The deputy was outside of his vehicle operating a traffic light when a car driven by Hinton's father Lawyer: Family had watched body camera of shooting just hours before deputy was killed The deputy and Hinton's father were transported to the hospital in critical condition Traffic on Martin Luther King Drive was closed for several hours after the crash The deputy's identity has not been released yet Theetge said he had recently retired from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and was working a special detail by directing traffic for the graduation "The officer was just out doing his job," Theetge said Officials have withheld the deputy's name, citing Marsy’s Law, legislation meant to protect victims of crimes Who is charged in the crash?Cincinnati police said the driver of the vehicle that struck the deputy has been arrested on a charge of aggravated murder On May 1, the day before the fatal crash, Cincinnati police went to an apartment complex in East Price Hill after learning a stolen vehicle was found there One officer chased 18-year-old Ryan Hinton The officer called out twice that Hinton had a gun The suspect tripped but continued to run between two dumpsters with a gun in his hand The other officer was pursuing someone else when the armed suspect emerged from between the dumpsters The body camera showed the officer fired four to five rounds at the suspect as he ran in the officer’s direction While it’s unclear from the blurred body camera footage the officer who fired the shots said in interviews that the suspect pointed the gun at him More: Fatal East Price Hill police shooting happened during 'six quick seconds,' chief says Police and a lawyer for Hinton's father have not provided details on the intentions behind the crash Hinton's lawyer said in an interview with The Enquirer that the father was "very distraught" watching body camera footage of the shooting earlier in the day "He couldn't finish watching the video," Michael Wright "It was very difficult to watch for the family." the other three suspects ran off into a steep Mike DeWine issued a statement about the death of the deputy who died in the line of duty May 2 while directing traffic "Fran and I are saddened to learn about the Hamilton County deputy hit by a vehicle and killed in the line of duty today I have been briefed on the ongoing investigation and am sickened by what appears to be an intentional act of violence We offer our sincere condolences to the deputy’s family CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The family of Ryan Hinton has hired attorneys to look into his death during an officer-involved shooting They said they met with Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge before the body cam was released to the media Attorney Michael Wright says everyone only saw one angle "What we saw in the video is hard to determine whether or not that officer was in imminent danger or should have thought that they were in imminent danger before they took shots," said Wright They have requested other officers' body cams and the police reports They don't believe the shooting was cut-and-dry so that's not a death penalty," said Wright In an appearance on Lincoln Ware's radio show on Monday Chief Theetge says they know the sequence of events in which Ryan had a firearm "We do know that he exited the vehicle with a gun in his hand; the officer saw that That's when the officer said he saw the gun in his hand," said Chief Theetge said he saw two scared people in that body cam video "What I've seen was two persons made a mistake; my grandson made a mistake being there he was trying to get back to his family too," said Hinton Sr "I have to bring the peace to this; there's no violence in this Damarlyn Howard couldn't hold back tears as he spoke about his cousin "He had no business being in a stolen car; he had a bed to come home to," said Howard Ryan's family also offered condolences to the family of retired deputy Larry Henderson "I would hope that the tensions in this city would relax that everyone would just wait and not rush the judgment on either side we can get through this," said Wright The family did not want to discuss his alleged actions or case This story was updated with the correct date the deputy was struck The man charged with killing a Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy previously pleaded guilty to assault and aggravated menacing Police say Rodney Hinton, Jr. struck the deputy with his car on May 2 as the deputy was directing traffic for the University of Cincinnati commencement. The deputy was transported in critical condition to the hospital and later died A Cincinnati police officer shot and killed Hinton's son the day before while investigating a stolen SUV Ryan Hinton was running with a gun in his hand Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said it's not clear from body camera footage but the officer who fired the shots said in interviews that Ryan Hinton pointed the gun at him said the situation is "a tragedy all around." They are sad for the police officer that lost his life Who was Ryan Hinton?Wright said he never met Ryan Wright said as far as he is aware Ryan did not have a criminal history The Enquirer found no court records related to Ryan Hinton Wright was with Ryan Hinton's family on the morning of May 2 as they watched the body camera footage from one of the police officers present when Hinton was killed Wright said the footage was "disturbing" and Rodney Hinton was distraught and despondent Wright said he did not yet know whether the family will file a lawsuit over the shooting and that he will need more information than a small portion of body camera footage went to Purcell Marian High School according to his Facebook profile Hinton's profile said he works for First Student but a spokesperson told The Enquirer that he applied to work for the company and does not work for them Hinton plead guilty to assault and aggravated menacing in Middletown Municipal Court in 2023 He was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to have no contact with the victims Previously he shared posts about police brutality on social media, including a podcast criticizing the execution of Nate Woods, a Black man who was sentenced to death in Alabama despite never touching the murder weapon. He also shared a post calling for the arrest of an officer who shot Atatania Jefferson while responding to a call for a wellness check In the days after a fatal Cincinnati police shooting in East Price Hill, The Enquirer has examined the brief clips of body camera footage the department released to learn more about how those "six quick seconds" unfolded Roughly 20 seconds of body camera video from two officers at an apartment complex the morning of May 1 show officers chasing on foot a fleeing suspect in a stolen car investigation whom police later identified as 18-year-old Ryan Hinton tripping on some concrete in front of a set of dumpsters He drops what police said was a Glock .40-caliber pistol recovered at the scene Hinton then continues between the two dumpsters with what appears to be the pistol in his right hand The officer alerts his partner on the other side of the dumpster that Hinton has a gun The partner catches up to Hinton and fires five consecutive shots at him Two bullets strike Hinton: one in the chest and one in the arm Who are the Hintons? What we know about man charged with killing a Hamilton County deputy Chief Teresa Theetge said in a press conference the day after the shooting that the time between when the suspects ran from police to when the shooting happened was “six quick seconds.” Theetge said the officer who shot Hinton believed the teen pointed the gun at him during the quick encounter "The individual is running with a firearm in his hand so the body camera is kind of jolting as the officer is running What that leaves us with a very blurred image the officer who did discharge his firearm said that when the individual came out between the dumpsters The department has not released the name of the officer who shot Hinton For years, the department would release the names and information about officers involved. However, in recent months, the department has been withholding that information, citing Marsy's Law, legislation meant to protect victims of crimes The day after the police shooting, Hinton's father, Rodney Hinton, Jr., drove his car into a Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy directing traffic The fatal crash came two hours after the Hinton family reviewed the body camera footage of the shooting A violent chain of events: Man accused of killing deputy day after police shot his son car crash13 PHOTOSThe family of 18-year-old Ryan Hinton held a press conference held May 5 was fatally shot by Cincinnati police during a stolen car investigation on May 1 police say Hinton's father killed Hamilton County Sheriff's Deputy Larry Henderson by striking him with a car Tonya Larkin grandmother of 18-year-old Ryan Hinton speaks at a press conference held May 5 The US$3-million prize, awarded by the not-for-profit VinFuture Foundation in Vietnam recognizes seminal scientific advancements that are improving the quality of human life and forging a more equitable and sustainable world known as the “godfather of AI,” shares the prize with Yoshua Bengio, Jen-Hsun (Jensen) Huang, Yann LeCun and Fei-Fei Li The five are honoured for their contributions to the development and adoption of deep learning which is revolutionizing fields ranging from biomedical research and transportation to manufacturing “The University of Toronto couldn’t be more proud of University Professor Emeritus Geoff Hinton,” said Leah Cowen “When Geoff arrived at U of T nearly 40 years ago his research into neural networks – influenced by his ideas about how the brain learns – was considered an AI backwater and his seminal work is transforming our world in ways that we’ve only begun to grasp This award is a testament to the power of curiosity-driven research – and the impact of investing in brilliant The VinFuture Foundation noted that Hinton and Bengio – a professor at the Université de Montréal – were awarded the prize for their research on neural networks and deep learning algorithms the chief AI scientist for Facebook AI Research who was one of Hinton’s post-doctoral students at U of T in the1980s was recognized for helping develop convolutional neural networks for computer vision was recognized for his work on computational architectures for deep learning and accelerated computing was celebrated for contributions to computer vision and large-scale image recognition “The three of us spent our whole lives developing the technology of neural networks,” Hinton said in remarks that noted the collective nature of the achievement “I’m very happy to see that the VinFuture Prize recognizes the contributions of Jensen Huang in developing the kind of compute and software required for artificial intelligence, and Fei-Fei Li in providing the big data that was needed to prove that it worked.” Now in its fourth year, the VinFuture Prize was created with the goal of celebrating scientific and technological innovations that are aligned with the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals Friday’s award ceremony was attended by Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and distinguished leaders scientists and diplomats from around the world It was broadcast live on Vietnamese television and streamed online.  “It’s terrific to see this recognition of Geoff’s extraordinary work and its potential to help address some of the world’s greatest challenges,” said Cowen “Researchers around the globe – including a number of his former students – are using AI to help solve some of the most pressing challenges of our time in areas such as health care The prize comes as Hinton prepares to officially accept his Nobel Prize in Physics in Sweden on Dec Hopfield of Princeton University for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks Hinton, who joined U of T in 1987 after working in universities in the U.K. and U.S., has said that he plans to leverage his growing fame to spread awareness of the dangers of unchecked AI development – a warning he first shared after leaving a research position at Google in early 2023 CINCINNATI — Just six seconds passed between when four people jumped from a suspected stolen car and when a Cincinnati police officer shot and killed one man Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said during a press conference Friday morning after police said the man's father drove into a Hamilton County sheriff's deputy police identified the man killed by an officer as 18-year-old Ryan Hinton Body camera footage played during the press conference was blurry as the officer chased after the alleged suspects in a wooded area behind an East Price Hill apartment building Theetge said officers with the department's Fugitive Apprehension Squad became aware of a stolen vehicle at an apartment complex in the 2500 block of Warsaw Avenue Hear more about the shooting from officials: Clips and still images from officer body cameras show the people who were in the car scattered when police pulled in and trapped the suspected stolen vehicle with their cruisers and fell briefly on a concrete pad near two dumpsters a still from body camera footage appeared to show Theetge said officers saw Hinton carrying a gun; officers interviewed as part of the investigation into the shooting said they heard the metal of the gun hit the ground when he fell Hinton got back up and ran between the two dumpsters; a Cincinnati police officer was already on the other side of the dumpsters with their gun drawn Theetge said another officer involved in the chase alerted the officer who fired his gun that Hinton is armed The officer who fired the shots can be heard saying "gun" before multiple gunshots ring out Theetge said officials believe the officer fired roughly four to five shots; Hinton was hit by two of those bullets Theetge said the man was hit once in the chest with the bullet exiting his back and once in the arm but that bullet went through his arm and into his side Theetge said there is no indication that Hinton fired his gun at all during the encounter; police did recover a handgun with an extended magazine attached near the man who was shot A second magazine was found in the man's sweatshirt pocket She said investigators believe that gun was stolen in Northern Kentucky Thursday morning and then the alleged suspects went on to steal the black Kia that was involved in the incident Theetge admitted during the press conference that the body camera footage is quick and difficult to see clearly because of the blurriness "The individual is running with a firearm in his hand and the officer is running so the body camera is jolting and what that leaves us with is a very blurred image she said during interviews after the shooting the officer who fired the shots said when Hinton came through the dumpsters the gun in his hand was pointed at the officer Theetge said the officer reported that he felt he was in danger "We do not expect the officers to wait until they're fired upon," said Theetge Jonathan Cunningham said no officers were hurt in the shooting All three of the other people involved have been arrested Court documents show both 19-year-old Deanthony Bullocks and 18-year-old Jurell Austin are charged with receiving stolen property and obstructing official business CPD said they detained 18-year-old Cynsere Grigsby for the same charges as Bullocks and Austin The judge ordered Bullocks to be held on a $40,000 bond for both charges; Austin was ordered to be held on a $50,000 bond the judge made Austin's bond higher because he's still facing three counts of felonious assault Court documents show Austin was charged in December for a shooting that happened in October That shooting wounded one person and Austin was also charged with discharging a gun near prohibited premises because he allegedly shot over Gilbert Avenue In court, a defense attorney also said Austin is a high school student who attended Dohn Community High School until it closed earlier this year Watch Theetge's full press conference from the shooting scene Thursday in the player below: Fraternal Order of Police President Ken Kober also said the man pointed a gun at the officer "Understand that if you shoot or point a gun at police Theetge declined to identify the officers involved in the shooting, including the officer who fired shots, citing Marsy's Law. Marsy's Law is intended to protect victims of crimes WCPO pulled documents on CPD's policies and protocols regarding an officer firing their gun during an encounter with suspects "Police officers may not use deadly force merely to prevent escape in misdemeanor cases," reads the policy "The use of deadly force to prevent escape of felony suspects is constitutionally unreasonable except where the escape presents an immediate risk of death or serious physical harm to another "Where the suspect poses no immediate threat of death or serious physical harm to others the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so If an officer uses unnecessary and/or excessive force even of culpable homicide if he kills a the person he is attempting to arrest." You can read the department's policy in full below: Cpd Discharging Firearms Policy by webeditors on Scribd the family of Ryan Hinton hired attorneys Michael Wright as well as Anthony Pierson of Pierson and Pierson to conduct an investigation into his death "Our firm was hired by members of Ryan Hinton's family to conduct an investigation into his shooting death by an officer with the Cincinnati Police Department We are in the preliminary stages of that investigation," the attorneys wrote in a statement sent to WCPO 9 Update 5:05 p.m.: Ryan Hinton’s family distanced themselves from the actions of his father, who is accused of killing a sheriff’s deputy the day after his son was shot, and instead said they are seeking answers about the fatal police shooting called the body camera footage of the May 1 shooting “disturbing” and said it is not clear whether the officer who shot Hinton was in imminent danger "This is not as cut and dry as this officer should have pulled out his gun and shot at Ryan," Wright said during the May 5 press conference More: 'Not that cut and dry': Family of Ryan Hinton, shot by Cincinnati police, seeks answers Update 12:35 p.m.: The mother and grandmother of Ryan Hinton are holding a press conference this afternoon with their legal team Hinton's family will speak at the office of the law firm representing them The Cochran Firm was hired by the estate of Ryan Hinton to conduct an investigation into his shooting death the family's attorneys offered condolences on their behalf for Henderson "This is an unimaginable tragedy for this community Ryan Hinton's family is heartbroken by this tragic turn of events and we are all devastated for the family of the officer who was killed," attorneys for the family said in a statement on May 3 Update 10:45 a.m.: One of the teens accused of being in a stolen car alongside Ryan Hinton appeared in court Monday Cynsere Grigsby is charged with receiving stolen property and obstruction of official business These are the same charges and the bond Jurell Austin and Deanthony Bullock received Austin and Deanthony are also accused of being in the vehicle with Hinton before Hinton was fatally shot by a Cincinnati police officer Original report: The father accused of killing a Hamilton County Sheriff's Office deputy with his car a day after a Cincinnati Police officer shot his son is due in court this week to determine whether he will be released on bond Rodney Hinton, Jr., will appear in Hamilton County Municipal Court on Tuesday, May 6. Hinton is accused of driving his car into and killing veteran Deputy Larry Henderson The day before the crash, May 1, a Cincinnati police officer shot and killed Hinton's son, Ryan, 18, during a stolen car investigation. More: Hamilton County sheriff's deputy death: A timeline of events Cincinnati police released roughly 20 seconds of body camera video from two police officers involved in the shooting that occurred the morning of May 1. Officers had responded to an apartment complex in East Price Hill around 9:30 a.m. as part of a stolen car investigation The suspect tripped but continued to run between two dumpsters with a gun in his hand before he encountered another officer The other officer caught up to Hinton and fired five consecutive shots at him Two bullets struck Hinton: one in the chest and one in the arm Theetge said the time between when the suspects ran from police to when the shooting happened was “six quick seconds.” Police arrested the other three suspects since the shooting crashed into Hamilton County sheriff's deputy Larry Henderson near the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Burnet Woods in Corryville Henderson stood outside his vehicle to operate a traffic light near a University of Cincinnati commencement ceremony More: A violent chain of events: Man accused of killing deputy day after police shot his son First responders took the deputy and the driver to UC Medical Center Police later arrested Rodney Hinton at the hospital Cincinnati police officials did not give an exact time of the arrest Sheriff's deputy Larry Henderson retired in December after working 33 years with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, according to a Facebook post on Dec. 20 He worked as a bomb technician and was a member of the dive team that performed water rescues and searches He still worked traffic details like the one outside a May 2 commencement ceremony at the University of Cincinnati Hamilton County Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey described him as a “tremendous person.”  “He was so well-liked and well-known,” McGuffey said I recognized his talent for teaching and presentation," she said in a release More: Community mourns retired sheriff's deputy Larry Henderson, killed while directing traffic said in an interview with The Enquirer that Hinton Jr was very distraught watching body camera footage of the shooting hours before the crash Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillich indicated she plans on aggressively pursuing the case against Hinton but if the facts show this act was intentional I will throw the full force of the law at the perpetrator," Pillich said in a May 2 statement More: Who are the Hintons? What we know about man charged with killing a Hamilton County deputy for a bond hearing in front of Hamilton County Municipal Judge Tyrone Yates Yates ordered Hinton to be held in the Clermont County Jail without bond pending his hearing Deputies solemnly flanked the Hamilton County courtroom as Hinton Jr was arraigned on a charge of aggravated murder Hinton Jr. is being held in a different county's jail for his own protection, according to Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Tyrone Yates, who presided over his arraignment on May 3. is charged with aggravated murder in the death of Hamilton County sheriff's deputy Larry Henderson The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office runs the Hamilton County Justice Center Hinton is being held in the jail in Clermont County Court documents listed his home in Middletown “This was an agreement made between the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office and Clermont County for what I was described as the defendant’s safety," Yates told The Enquirer "They did not want to have any questions about him being held in Hamilton County as a matter of safety because the officer had been a Hamilton County deputy sheriff.” The source code for AlexNet — the neural network developed at the University of Toronto that kickstarted today’s artificial intelligence boom and led to a Nobel Prize for Geoffrey Hinton — will be preserved by the Computer History Museum in partnership with Google boasts a diverse archive of software and related material and aims to “decode technology — the computing past It has already released other historic source codes “This code underlies the landmark paper ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton which revolutionized the field of computer vision and is one of the most cited papers of all time,” says Jeff Dean “Google is delighted to contribute the source code for the groundbreaking AlexNet work to the Computer History Museum.” AlexNet has its roots in the decades of research conducted by Hinton, a U of T University Professor Emeritus of computer science who recently shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with Princeton’s John Hopfield for foundational work in AI University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Hinton’s graduate students at U of T were beginning to use graphics processing units (GPUs) to train neural networks for image recognition tasks and their success suggested that deep learning could be a path to creating general-purpose AI systems In particular, Sutskever — who went on to become a key figure at OpenAI, which launched ChatGPT, and will receive an honorary degree from U of T this year — believed that the performance of neural networks would scale with the amount of data available The arrival of ImageNet in 2009 provided him with the chance to test his theory The dataset of images developed by Stanford University Professor Fei-Fei Li was larger than any previous image dataset by several orders of magnitude to train a convolutional neural network on ImageNet With Hinton serving as principal investigator Krizhevsky programmed the network on a computer with two NVIDIA cards he tweaked the network’s parameters and retrained it until it achieved performance superior to its competitors The network was ultimately named AlexNet in his honour very few machine learning researchers used neural networks Google eventually acquired the company started by Hinton and a Google team led by David Bieber worked with CHM for five years to secure the code’s public release Alex made it work and I got the Nobel Prize.” Read more on the CHM website: CHM releases AlexNet source code With files from the Computer History Museum A bizarre and violent chain of events that stretched over two days ended May 2 when a man killed a Hamilton County sheriff's deputy by driving his car into him while he directed traffic outside the University of Cincinnati's commencement ceremony Police said the driver of the car, Rodney Hinton Jr., is the father of a man who was shot and killed by Cincinnati Police in East Price Hill on May 1. Authorities have not identified the police officers involved in the shooting or the deputy who was struck at UC, citing Marsy’s Law, legislation meant to protect victims of crimes The fatal crash at UC came roughly two hours after the Hinton family reviewed police body camera footage of an officer shooting Hinton's 18-year-old son near the Westview Condominiums' parking lot "This was a horrific tragedy," Wright said "Our hearts go out to the law enforcement officer." He said he could not speculate on the intentions of the father but Wright said he became distraught after watching some of the police body camera video of his son's fatal shooting "He couldn't finish watching the video," Wright said Police said the incident involving Ryan Hinton began around 9:30 a.m. May 1 when officers went to the East Price Hill condominiums' parking lot to investigate reports of a stolen Kia Telluride to the parking lot in East Price Hill by monitoring its GPS system arrived to find four people inside the vehicle Two body camera videos released by Cincinnati Police show that when officers ordered everyone out of the car An officer on the video can be heard shouting The shaky body camera images from the officer who fired the shots show the suspect running between two dumpsters and then past the officer He does not appear to stop or to face the officer directly but Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said the officer told investigators the suspect pointed the gun at him Theetge said there is no indication he fired any shots at police but she said the gun was loaded with an extended magazine Hinton's father drove his car into the sheriff's deputy who was outside of his cruiser operating a traffic light around 1 p.m near the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Burnet Woods Traffic in the area was heavy because UC's commencement was set to begin at 3 p.m The car that struck the deputy drove onto a sidewalk and into a light pole who was retired but working a special traffic detail for UC's commencement was pronounced dead a few hours later at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Rodney Hinton was taken to the same hospital and was also listed in critical condition though authorities have indicated his injuries are not severe Police charged Hinton with aggravated murder shortly after the deputy died Although police have not released the deputy's name praise for him and his work came quickly as word spread among his friends and colleagues She said the deputy had retired from the sheriff’s office but still assisted as a “special deputy.”  Others who knew the deputy took to social media to commemorate his life and public service “This is devastating. I had worked with him since we were young cops,” Newtown police Chief Tom Synan said in a Facebook post “Always one of the first to check on and help you Sign In Register As the Town of Hinton heads into the final round of decision-making for the budget an unexpected surplus of about $1.0 million has appeared since Council’s last discussions on this topic And with it the question of how you want this surplus spent Would you like the money used to reduce your taxes by about 2.2% or should council add it to spending Council seems to be leaning toward spending it This $1.0 million surplus comes mostly from an increase in $600,000 from Yellowhead County (changes to the linear assessment formula) a $300,000 savings from operating costs to the Rowan Recycle Station and a number of other changes And it could generate a fund of roughly $800,0000 which council has tentatively discussed spending in a roughly equal three-way split between (i) older asset repairs (ii) a mill rate stabilization fund and (iii) a recreation centre fund please remember that as a taxpayer and homeowner under existing Hinton water treatment plans you are already facing an approximately $ 2.8 million per year increase to your utility fees the equivalent of about a 20% tax increase During the budget discussion the Mayor challenged it referring to “Councillor Taylor’s make-believe math” And since we don’t want fake or even just mistaken numbers to drive important financial decisions I want to share with you how I got to these figures Calculating the taxes payable in any given year involves a three-step process: as part of step three new information comes to light that Council or administration wasn’t previously aware of Which is what happened here with the $1 million surplus But it just plugs into those familiar calculations in this case reducing the needed tax allotment from $14,620,441 to $13,620,637 And if the Mayor is still with me to this point it’s straightforward to work out that the latter number represents a 2.2% tax decrease from the $13,919,680 in net municipal taxes collected in 2024 This year a number of Councillors have apparently decided instead to set the tax bylaw rate change at 0% then with assessments up 3.7% the total amount of tax collected at the unchanged rate will necessarily go up by 3.7% generating a  fund of $800,000 above our earlier budget calculations which council then spent a lot of time discussing how to spend rather than whether to Politicians are good at presenting what are in fact tax increases in some other more appealing light In this case a Tax Bylaw rate increase of 0% sounds a lot better at election time than the actual 3.7% increase you may have to pay If you think I bungled the math let me know where I went wrong there’s a real rather than make-believe decision whether we go for a real tax decrease of 2.2% let me know your thoughts because we’re your Council and it’s your money More SPOTLIGHT > Here’s a somewhat rapid (10:11) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI including: Rapidus 2nm chips and Japan’s position in the chip fab arena McKinsey releases $7T data center forecast trade restrictions and national competitiveness the “godfather of AI” issues warning at AI and the fate of humanity you’re either forging new paths or stuck in traffic Tier 0 doesn’t just clear the road — it builds the autobahn The MLPerf1.0 benchmark has made one thing clear … The high-performance computing (HPC) market is witnessing a notable shift towards the cloud partially driven by the benefits of enhanced energy efficiency According to Hyperion Research nearly every organization running HPC workloads is either already using or investigating the cloud to accelerate application performance with the cloud market for HPC workloads forecast to reach $11.5 […] University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton will receive the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Dec “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton was already on his way to becoming a household name when he won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational work leading to today’s artificial intelligence boom.   his celebrity has hit a whole new level.  The University Professor emeritus at the University of Toronto says he now gets recognized on the street and that strangers regularly ask him for selfies one flight attendant even grabbed the intercom to announce his presence on the plane That’s in addition to a torrent of requests to speak to media appear on podcasts and read academic papers.  As he prepares to travel to Stockholm on Dec. 10 to officially accept the honour alongside co-winner John J. Hopfield of Princeton University – which will be celebrated via watch parties and other “Nobel Week” events at U of T – Hinton says he plans to put his growing fame to good use.  “It will be useful when I talk about AI risks,” he says, referring to the warning bell he began sounding in 2023 about the potential existential threat posed by rapid and unchecked AI development.   “It will make people take me more seriously.”  For example, he was recently invited to be part of a webinar with Nobel Peace Prize laureates on whether AI should be used to decide if and when to launch nuclear weapons – a foreboding new twist on a Cold War-era threat that has preoccupied fellow U of T Nobel laureate John Polanyi a University Professor emeritus of chemistry.   “I think it’s a bad idea,” Hinton says for the record.    as scary as such a scenario is to contemplate Hinton has focused on what he considers an equally grave threat to humanity: the moment when machine intelligence surpasses that of our own.   That’s why he’s called on governments to develop regulations to guide AI development and deployment It’s also why he’s urging companies to devote more funding to AI safety research as they rush to explore the myriad ways the technology can be used to make our lives better – from finding cures for deadly diseases to discovering new materials to help combat climate change.   The institute and U of T more broadly have an opportunity to become a world leader in figuring out how to guard against AI threats “I think that can be a world-class centre for figuring out whether there’s a way to make a superintelligence – which we all think is coming – not want to take control.”    Hinton’s moment in the spotlight has been a long time coming – and is testament to his curious mind persistent nature and willingness to go against the grain.  As a child attending a “mildly Christian school” in England he says he often felt like an outsider because he refused to accept the idea of a god without evidence (he remains an atheist) Hinton again found himself on the fringe as he and a handful of researchers including the Salk Institute for Biological Science’s Terry Sejnowsky explored the idea that the human brain was essentially a bunch of connection strengths between neurons – not a series of logical expressions That key insight now forms the basis of today neural nets.  “There were many times when I could easily have given up and sort of joined the mainstream,” Hinton says “But I think my experience as a child made me far more resistant to that.”  A self-described cognitive scientist who works in the field of computer science, Hinton says he was surprised to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. But the Nobel committee noted he used ideas from physics to create the Boltzmann machine which can be used to recognize elements in data which was invented by his co-laureate.   Hinton is donating an early Boltzmann chip to the Nobel Prize Museum – and has decided to use the money from his win to set up a prize for young researchers at the annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems He has also donated to a Canadian charity that supports works with Indigenous communities to address water challenges and has plans to give to another that supports neurodiverse young adults.  For young researchers hoping to follow in his footsteps Hinton advises: focus on a problem that really excites you don’t become swayed by conventional thinking persevere until you know you’re wrong – and feel free to wander between different research disciplines.   “If you're really interested in chasing a criminal you don't stop at a state border,” he says U of T University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton receives his Nobel Prize in Physics from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm (photo by Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images)  The University of Toronto’s Geoffrey Hinton officially accepted his Nobel Prize in Physics during a formal ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall that included orchestra music an opera singer and a stage lined with bouquets of flowers.  Hinton strode across the dark blue stage emblazoned with the words “The Nobel Prize” to receive his Nobel medal and diploma from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden as the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra sounded a few triumphant notes the audience and returned to his seat at the side of the stage And just like that, decades of scholarly endeavour in artificial intelligence (AI) – which began on the fringe of the AI research community and is now poised to forever change modern life – culminated in the U of T University Professor emeritus of computer science known as the “godfather of AI” receiving humanity’s most prestigious award for scientific achievement Hinton shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John J who made a similar journey inside the concert hall a few moments earlier The pair were awarded the prize for discoveries and inventions that enabled machine learning with artificial neural networks laying the groundwork for today’s AI boom.  “[Geoffrey Hinton] pioneered the efforts to establish deep and dense neural networks,” said Ellen Moons, the chair of the Nobel physics committee “Such networks are effective in sorting and interpreting large amounts of data and self-improve based on the accuracy of the result artificial neural networks are powerful tools in research fields spanning physics the three winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – who were seated to Hinton’s left – drew heavily on AI for their work in predicting protein structures and computational design of proteins.  members of the U of T community gathered at watch parties on all three campuses to take in the livestream of the awards ceremony – a historic moment for the university.  On the St. George campus, more than one hundred gathered to watch and cheer in the main lobby of the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus – home to U of T’s Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence where Hinton serves as an advisory board member and chief scientific adviser Among the gathered audience was Michael Guerzhoy, an assistant professor of engineering science and mechanical and industrial engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering who took Hinton’s course on neural networks and machine learning in 2005 – before going on to teach the same course himself several years later.  “I think we all feel an enormous amount of pride in the fact that this is one of the places where modern machine learning was really born in large part due to Geoff Hinton,” Guerzhoy said “I think a lot of us owe a personal debt of gratitude to him.” Fourth-year undergraduate student James Wang said he was “in awe” as he watched Hinton receive his Nobel Prize.  you want to attain the highest level of achievement that anybody can achieve – and not just to do it for your sake but also for the academic community at large,” Wang said.  There were similar expressions of pride and jubilation at U of T Mississauga where community members congregated to watch the livestream in the atrium of the Communication Culture & Technology Building where a watch party was organized in the Meeting Place.  the awarding of the Nobel Prize medal and diploma took place on Dec the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel who bequeathed his fortune to create the award The gold medal for the Nobel Prize in Physics depicts nature in the form of a goddess resembling Isis her face covered by a veil held up by the Genius of Science “Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes,”which are translated to: “It is beneficial to have improved (human) life through discovered arts.”  The Nobel diploma is crafted on handmade paper and bound in a dark blue leather cover.  friends and dignitaries for a banquet at Stockholm City Hall.  In an interview with Swedish national broadcaster SVT on the sidelines of the event Hinton said it was “very exciting but also very exhausting” to take part in the day’s Nobel events.  Hinton said his school years – raised as an atheist who went to a Christian school – helped prepare him for his early years as a cognitive scientist working in the then-peripheral area of artificial intelligence.  everybody else had a different opinion and I thought they were wrong – that was very useful when I was studying neural nets,” Hinton said there were only a few of us who believed in neural nets Everybody else said this was a ridiculous thing to study The man charged with killing a Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy by driving a car into him appeared in court on the morning of May 3 Deputies solemnly flanked the Hamilton County courtroom as Rodney Hinton Jr The state has set a bond hearing for Hinton on May 6 at 8:30 am in front of Hamilton County Municipal Judge Tyrone Yates Hinton will be held in Clermont County's jail Police say Hinton was the driver of the automobile that fatally struck a Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy The deputy was directing traffic ahead of commencement ceremonies at the University of Cincinnati According to police, Hinton Jr. is the father of a man who was shot and killed by Cincinnati Police in East Price Hill on May 1 The fatal crash at UC came roughly two hours after the Hinton family reviewed police body camera footage of an officer shooting Hinton's 18-year-old son Ryan Hinton was one of four men suspected in a car theft earlier on Thursday Police shot and killed him when they say he pointed a gun at an officer allegedly killed a deputy in a car crash near UC's campus on Friday and was charged with aggravated murder CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Attorneys representing the man shot and killed by Cincinnati police on Thursday released a statement on Saturday from the Hinton family "Our firm was hired by members of Ryan Hinton's family to conduct an investigation into his shooting death by an officer with the Cincinnati Police Department We are in the preliminary stages of that investigation we attended a meeting between the family and members of the Cincinnati Police Department to view body camera video of Ryan Hinton's shooting death was present at the meeting and they were understandably distraught as they watched the bodycam video After the meeting with the police department Ryan Hinton's father left in his own vehicle and that was the last we heard from him until learning about the tragic incident involving a law enforcement officer who was working a traffic detail near the University of Cincinnati we offer our heartfelt condolences to the family and colleagues of the officer who was killed yesterday This is an unimaginable tragedy for this community Ryan Hinton's family is heartbroken by this tragic turn of events and we are all devastated for the family of the officer who was killed." The University of Toronto is home to some of the world’s top faculty U of T Celebrates recognizes their award-winning accomplishments Geoffrey Hinton, a University Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto has been named one of seven recipients of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.  The annual prize is awarded to engineers whose innovations have benefited humanity on a global scale.  Hinton, widely regarded as the "godfather of AI," was recognized for his groundbreaking research on artificial neural networks, which has enabled advancements in modern machine learning. He shares the prize with Princeton University's John Hopfield – his co-laureate for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics – as well as Université de Montréal's Yoshua Bengio NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun (Jensen) Huang, NVIDIA chief scientist Bill Dally and Facebook AI Research scientist Yann LeCun “Receiving the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is a wonderful honour and recognition of the role engineering plays in advancing society," Hinton said in a press release "I hope this award will encourage future innovators to address our world's most pressing challenges including the challenge of making AI safe so that we can all reap its benefits.” Nick Frosst and Kevin Swersky at a recent event celebrating U of T University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton's 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics (photo by Johnny Guatto) In the wake of Geoffrey Hinton’s 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics former students and colleagues from the University of Toronto are sharing their favourite anecdotes about the “godfather of AI” – including one involving the classic Atari video game Asteroids a U of T alumnus and co-founder of generative AI startup Cohere University Professor Emeritus of computer science button-mashing session that left him with nerve damage which is still two fingers at a time,” said Frosst who began working with Hinton as a U of T undergraduate student and was his first employee at Google Brain He shared the story at a recent event hosted by the department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science saying it offered a telling glimpse into Hinton’s character passion and playfulness that he brings to everything … He found something that was fun and engaging and he played it until it damaged a finger and then he continued to push for it.” Frosst said he also appreciates Hinton’s thoughtful consideration about the potential negative consequences of the revolutionary technology he helped create and praised him for looking past formal qualifications to spot potential and creativity but he was willing to work with me and I saw that in the types of people he brought into Google Brain to work with him,” Frosst said “He took lots of chances on people and gave them the time of day once they were there I'll always be thankful and deeply privileged Other former students at U of T tell similar stories Chris Maddison, now an assistant professor in U of T’s departments of computer science and statistical sciences in the Faculty of Arts & Science was also an undergraduate student when he started working with Hinton in 2011 He also painted a picture of Hinton’s vibrant office – where everyone knew when he had a new idea.  the joy radiated out of his office down the hall The air was buzzing with possibility,” said Maddison “He was famous for bursting into a room and pronouncing that worked with Hinton as a graduate student at U of T and similarly described visiting Hinton as a memorable academic experience “Normally when you go to a supervisor's office You go through what your latest results are you talk about a couple of your ideas and you get some feedback,” he said “Going to Geoff’s office was a completely different story He would be telling you what his latest idea was And his whole thing was just that he was really excited about it and his hope was to inspire you enough to start running with it.” He added that he was particularly inspired by Hinton’s focus on small solvable puzzles that would ultimately lead to significant breakthroughs over time “Geoff would think completely intuitively – like the universe was a puzzle and he was just kind of figuring out where all the pieces went and the math would always follow whatever he was talking about,” he said “He offered to put me up for a few weeks,” he said of a time when he found himself looking for a place to stay in Toronto Geoff Hinton wants to go out shopping for dishes for me so that I can be comfortable for a few weeks.’” has a Hinton home-making story: the AI luminary built him a desk from scratch “It’s a small wooden desk that fits in the corner of my room at home “That's where I keep my computer and work from.” The University of Toronto’s Geoffrey Hinton took to the stage at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm this weekend — two days before he officially accepts his Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental work in AI — to deliver a lecture on the inventions and discoveries that led to him being given the prestigious award “Today, I’m going to do something very foolish — I’m going to try and describe a complicated technical idea for a general audience, without using any equations,” said Hinton, a U of T University Professor Emeritus of computer science The “godfather of AI” then proceeded to outline how decades of his fundamental research enabled the development of artificial neural networks and machine learning — technologies that underpin today’s AI revolution The Nobel lectures are among the highlights of Nobel Week, which runs from December 6 – 12 in Stockholm and Oslo and includes award ceremonies, banquets, media engagements and commemorations at the Nobel Museum. There is also a series of Nobel Week events taking place at U of T including watch parties on all three campuses for the livestream of the December 10 award ceremony Sunday’s first Nobel Prize lecture in physics was delivered by Hopfield who shared how his fascination with the workings of the human brain inspired his development of the Hopfield network — an associative memory that can store and reconstruct patterns in data the deepest question posed by our humanity,” Hopfield said When it was Hinton’s turn to take the stage he described how he and Terry Sejnowski — one of Hopfield’s students — came upon a novel use of Hopfield nets: “Instead of using them to store memories we could use them to construct interpretations of sensory input,” Hinton said He then went on to discuss the resulting Boltzmann machine a type of neural network that is capable of recognizing elements within data Hinton discusses the significance of the Boltzmann machine the original Boltzmann machine was too slow and it wasn’t until several years later that he came up with “restricted Boltzmann machines,” which impose limitations on connections between neurons in order to increase system efficiency — a development that would prove pivotal in training deep neural networks (Before returning to Canada Hinton will make a special donation to the Nobel Prize Museum: an early Boltzmann chip with the pair sharing a vigorous handshake and posing for photos U of T brought together a panel of experts in Stockholm to discuss AI research and development U of T convened an expert panel in Stockholm on Monday about the direction of AI research and development professor of computer science and pro-vice-chancellor for AI at Örebro University in Sweden The conversation touched on areas including the promising applications of AI how responsible deployment of AI can mitigate the technology’s potential pitfalls and implications of AI’s rise on education U of T President Meric Gertler said that the AI breakthroughs fostered by Hinton’s research were made possible by Canada’s longstanding support of basic research “Geoff was interested in the novel but unproven concept of artificial neural networks, an area that was sometimes described as the ‘unpromising backwater’ of AI research,” President Gertler said in his remarks introducing the panel, noting that Hinton joined U of T in 1987 and was one of the first scholars to receive support from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) their ideas and their students — and those investments have paid off many years later.” Canada was also the first country to launch a national AI roadmap in the form of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy — which funds three national AI institutes including the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence which is now housed in U of T’s new Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus The state-of-the-art building also hosts the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society which is at the forefront of research and thought leadership on AI safety and responsible development with Hinton one of its advisory board members Canada has played a key role in launching and driving the AI revolution and we’re a world leader in understanding and promoting safe The theme of responsible AI was also brought up during a Q-and-A with Hinton who revealed that the remarkable information-sharing abilities of large language models played a big role in sparking his now oft-repeated concerns around the current pace of the technology’s development “That’s when I came to realize that the fact that they’re so much better at sharing probably means that digital intelligence is just a better form of intelligence than us — and that’s what got me so worried,” he said Asked what responsible AI regulation looks like Hinton said there must first be a consensus around solving the problem from a scientific standpoint — not unlike the scientific consensus that has emerged around climate change the first thing to do is figure out what’s causing it and get scientific agreement on how you can fix it the second thing to do is get the politicians to do something about it … but here CINCINNATI — The man suspected of driving into a Hamilton County sheriff's deputy and killing him made his first appearance in court Saturday morning Members of the sheriff's department packed the courtroom to show their support for their late colleague and appeared in court Saturday to hear the charges Watch as dozens of law enforcement stand guard at Rodney Hinton Jr.'s first court appearance: The prosecution said in court that it is believed that Hinton "in a way that was calculated and premeditated deliberately accelerated his car and purposely caused the death of an on-duty deputy sheriff." The judge ordered that Hinton would be held without bail in the Clermont County jail until his bond hearing gestures to somebody watching his arraignment who makes a heart with their hands Geoffrey Hinton, University Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto and winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics takes questions during a virtual press conference hosted by U of T (image via YouTube) Think not just about how to advance technology These were among the key messages delivered by Geoffrey Hinton, University Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto and winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics 8 press conference held by the university to mark his historic award Widely regarded as “the godfather of AI,” Hinton was named a co-winner of the prize – alongside John J Hopfield of Princeton University – for his work on Boltzmann machines and artificial neural networks which laid the groundwork for advancements in AI and stimulated new research directions in physics U of T President Meric Gertler hailed Hinton for having “a profound impact on multiple fields and disciplines,” crediting “his leadership and exemplary mentorship of young scholars” with helping U of T become a global leader in AI and machine learning “I think one cannot overstate the impact of a win like this on the ability of Canada Toronto and the University of Toronto to be able to welcome talented newcomers great students and wonderful faculty from across the country and around the world because of the recognition that arises with Geoff’s win,” President Gertler said Hinton echoed his remarks from earlier in the day that he was “flabbergasted” to receive the prize and pleased that the Nobel committee recognized the advancements in artificial neural networks He also answered questions about his influences legacy and how it feels to go from being an obscure researcher who toiled in a largely forsaken field to a Nobel Laureate – and his advice for researchers who hope to one day follow in his footsteps Here are five key themes that emerged from Hinton's news conference: “I’m hoping AI will lead to tremendous benefits to tremendous increases in productivity and to a better life for everybody I’m convinced that it will do that in health care “My worry is that it may also lead to bad things when we get things more intelligent than ourselves no one really knows whether we’re going to be able to control them “We don’t know how to avoid [catastrophic AI scenarios] at present So I’m advocating that our best young researchers should work on AI safety and governments should force large companies to provide the computational facilities they need to do that.” “I think of the prize as a recognition of a large community of people who worked on artificial neural networks for many years “I’d particularly like to acknowledge my two main mentors: David Rumelhart with whom I worked on the backpropagation algorithm … and my colleague Terry Sejnowsky who I worked with a lot in the 1980s on Boltzmann machines and who taught me a lot about the brain I was particularly fortunate to have many clever students “I should also acknowledge Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun who were close colleagues and very instrumental in developing this whole field.” “I think the main thing about Canada as a place to do research is there isn’t as much money as there is in the U.S. the main funding council for this type of research uses money for basic curiosity-driven research and all of these advances in neural networks came out of basic curiosity-driven research – not out of throwing money at applied problems but out of letting scientists follow their curiosity to try and understand things but it was slightly annoying that many people – in fact most people in the field of AI – said that neural networks would never work "They were very confident these things were a waste of time and we would never be able to learn complicated things – for example understanding natural language – using neural networks "My message is this: if you believe in something don’t give up on it until you understand why that belief is wrong you believe in things and you eventually figure out why that’s a wrong thing to believe in But so long as you believe in something and you can’t see why that’s wrong – like ‘the brain has to work somehow so we have to figure out how it learns the connection strengths to make it work’ – keep working on it and don’t let people tell you it’s nonsense if you can’t see why it’s nonsense." (Photo by Johnny Guatto/University of Toronto) Geoffrey Hinton, a University Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto, has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Widely regarded as the “godfather of AI,” Hinton shared the prize with John J. Hopfield of Princeton University for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks Hinton said he was “flabbergasted” at the honour as messages poured in from around the world.  “I had no expectations of this,” he told U of T News shortly after the win was announced in Stockholm Tuesday morning “I am extremely surprised and I'm honoured to be included.”  He later told reporters at a press conference he was “in a cheap hotel in California” with no Internet and a poor phone connection when he was notified about his Nobel Prize.  but I think I’m going to have to cancel that.” Hinton and Hopfield are credited with wielding tools from physics to advance basic research in the field Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images in data while Hinton invented a way to find properties in data and perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures I am absolutely delighted to congratulate University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton on receiving the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics,” said U of T President Meric Gertler “The U of T community is immensely proud of his historic accomplishment.”  Hinton was selected for the high-profile award for his use of the Hopfield network – invented by his co-laureate – as the foundation for a new network called the Boltzmann machine that can learn to recognize elements within a given type of data The Boltzmann machine can classify images and generate new examples of the pattern on which it was trained with Hinton and his graduate students later building on this work to help usher in today’s rapid development of machine learning – a technology that now underpins a host of applications ranging from large language models such as ChatGPT to self-driving cars “The laureates’ work has already been of the greatest benefit In physics we use artificial neural networks in a vast range of areas such as developing new materials with specific properties,” said Ellen Moons Hinton joined U of T as a professor of computer science in 1987 after working in various universities in the U.K. and in the United States. He went on to be named a University Professor – U of T’s highest academic appointment – in 2006 Driven by a desire to understand the human brain, Hinton and his graduate students built on his early efforts with an array of developments that paved the way for an explosion in deep learning. One of the first cohort of researchers supported by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Hinton’s work helped catapult Canada to its current status as a global leader in AI development which awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, noted Hinton persisted with his research even as the scientific community lost interest in artificial neural networks during the 1990s and ultimately “helped start the new explosion of exciting results” in the 2000s said during a U of T press conference Tuesday evening that his achievements wouldn’t have been possible without support for curiosity-based research – something he said Canada was good at.  He added that his shock at winning the Nobel stemmed from the fact that while his work has drawn on statistical physics he isn’t a physicist himself – and even “dropped out of physics after my first year in university because I couldn’t do the complicated math.” He also said that he plans to donate the money associated with the prize to various charities including one that provides jobs for neurodiverse young adults Hinton likened the influence of AI to that of the Industrial Revolution during a virtual press conference with the academy earlier in the day – “But instead of exceeding people in physical strength it’s going to exceed people in intellectual ability.” He added that the rise of AI “is going to be wonderful in many respects,” citing health care and workplace productivity as two areas poised to benefit hugely from the technology “But we also have to worry about a number of possible bad consequences particularly the threat of these things getting out of control,” Hinton said In early 2023, Hinton quit his job at Google and focused on sounding the alarm about the risks of rapid and unfettered AI development. He outlined his reasoning in a 46-minute U of T video last year, urging young researchers to focus their efforts on the emerging field of AI safety – a message he repeated in media interviews following his Nobel win.  He has continued to tackle the issue at lectures and public appearances around the world, including at U of T and at Cambridge University an esteemed colleague and dear friend has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics,” said Melanie Woodin dean of U of T’s Faculty of Arts & Science.  “Geoff is an historic visionary whose groundbreaking work in deep learning and neural networks has made U of T and the Toronto region a leading global centre for AI And it speaks volumes about his integrity that while he helped lay the foundation for the artificial intelligence revolution he is also one of the leading voices urging that we develop this technology responsibly and ethically.”  Similarly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lauded Hinton for his efforts to realize responsible AI development, releasing a statement and writing on X: “Geoffrey we’re glad to have a mind like yours developing safe and responsible AI for the world.”  Hinton is the fourth U of T faculty member to win a Nobel Prize over the years.  Sir Frederick Banting and J.J.R Macleod won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work with Charles Best in 1923 to isolate insulin In 1986, John Polanyi was one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the new field of reaction dynamics.  have received or been associated with the international honour a past professor at U of T, was a joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for discovering the “principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells.” Professor Robert Jefferies shared in the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in which he was a key Canadian representative as an international leader in Arctic science and global change biology In 1999, U of T Professor James Orbinski accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Doctors Without Borders which was recognized for its humanitarian work Anti-nuclear activist and U of T alumna Setsuko Thurlow accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway in 2017 on behalf the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) an alumnus of University of Toronto Schools, was one of three joint winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to analyses of markets with asymmetrical information.  was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994 for the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter.  was one of three winners of the same prize in 1981 for his contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy.  U of T alumnus Walter Kohn was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of the density-functional theory who received a bachelor’s degree from U of T The Alberta Forest Products Association wants the Town of Hinton to help push the provincial government for support amid the threat of U.S a representative with the Alberta Forest Products Association 18) that their sector supported more than 30,000 forestry jobs in Alberta the bad and the ugly about that is that 50 per cent of our products are exported to the United States,” Galambos said “The rising barriers and threats of trade are really challenging our sector risking the livelihoods of many rural communities where we do rely upon the forest industry for a lot of our employment opportunities.” are now projected to exceed 30 per cent by the summer President Donald Trump’s 25 per cent tariffs could push trade barriers past 50 per cent “I think anybody can see that that will have major effects and make it really impossible for some operators and our mills to compete,” Galambos said Galambos outlined six steps the provincial government could take to support Alberta’s forest industry amid this threat The first was to advocate for Alberta forest products in the United States “A lot of folks maybe don’t understand that the U.S doesn’t produce enough lumber to meet their domestic demands home building requires Canadian lumber with or without tariffs and so to have tariffs this magnitude imposes on America essentially a tax,” she said She added thousands of American manufacturing jobs were dependent on Canadian pulp The other step was for the provincial government to keep regulatory costs low such as keeping timber duties competitive and streamlining the permitting process “If we look west to the province of B.C. we can see the impacts of excessive and strict regulation and what that can do in terms of mill closures and job losses,” Galambos said The Alberta Forest Products Association also wants to diversify the domestic market and is calling on the government to adopt a “Build with Alberta Wood” act similar to the one in Quebec Another recommendation was for the provincial government to advocate for federal financial assistance Galambos noted that $10 billion in duty deposits were currently locked up in the U.S The hope was for the creation of a federal loan backstop program The fifth step was market diversification to reduce the reliance on the United States The Alberta Forest Products Association has identified markets with growth potential in India “We’re hoping that the provincial government can help us on trade missions promoting our own sustainability of Alberta’s forest products and to join us in international developments of opportunities,” Galambos said The final ask was for a forestry manufacturing tax credit to encourage investment in new products and technologies.  “The Government of Alberta is aware of this initiative but we need action now,” Galambos said The Alberta Forest Products Association has already penned a letter to Premier Danielle Smith outlining these recommendations and it is now asking forestry communities such as Hinton for letters of support Council directed administration to draft a letter to the provincial government in support of these six recommendations It also directed administration to draft a resolution supporting the recommendations for the Municipal Leaders’ Caucus in March HINTON – Police are warning property owners of paving contractor scams after receiving an increased number of complaints in the area out-of-town companies claiming to be pavers are offering their services at an inexpensive rate Residents pay for these services up front and receive a substandard job or are asked to pay more than originally quoted The contractors will then disappear from the area before people realize they have been scammed “Hinton RCMP urges property owners to beware of out-of-town companies offering such services,” police stated in a release “The contractors claim to have leftover asphalt from previous jobs and promise to provide quality services recycled asphalt or a gravel and oil mixture with no lasting properties This results in the asphalt falling apart once it is driven on.” These individuals have been known to provide few details of their identity and utilize nondescript vehicles rarely bearing commercial logos Residents should also be weary of any contractors who pressure them into making a quick decision refuse to take “no” for an answer ask for a down payment to buy materials or refuse to provide a quote with the proper information physical address and the services they will provide prior to completing the work Police offered the following tips to avoid falling prey to scammers: Anyone who has fallen victim to this scam can contact Hinton RCMP at 780-865-5544. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) online at www.P3Tips.com or by using the “P3 Tips” app You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience and security When we talk about artificial intelligence we often mean machine learning using artificial neural networks This technology was originally inspired by the structure of the brain the brain’s neurons are represented by nodes that have different values Geoffrey Hinton used tools from statistical physics to create the Boltzmann machine which can learn to recognise characteristic elements in a set of data Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons Tasked with a mission to manage Alfred Nobel's fortune and has ultimate responsibility for fulfilling the intentions of Nobel's will these academic institutions have worked independently to select Nobel Prize laureates Several outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize.