[NalNezumi]

And a MORE funny story is,(according to an coworker of mine, whose PhD supervisor was a friend to Hinton) that when Hinton was looking for university to conduct his work in, he was rejected by the UK universities which was his first choices. So ended up in Canada.

So the plot twist comes with a bit of irony!

[mafribe]

Yes, Hinton was on a temporary position at the University of Sussex (IIRC, the Centre for Cognitive Science) for a while, but was not offered a permanent academic position there when he applied.