IBM's Dmitry Krotov Wants To Crack The 'Physics' Of Memory
IBM, June 24,2025
Thrust in the spotlight after his mentor won the Nobel Prize last year, Krotov continues to search for an AI architecture that is both interpretable and could explain how our own memory works.
Dmitry 'Dima' Krotov was among the first to congratulate AI pioneer, John Hopfield, on his Nobel Prize in Physics last fall. 'John, wow!' he texted Hopfield on the morning the award became public. 'Just WOW!!'
As Hopfield's close collaborator, Krotov has helped explain to the world following the announcement how Hopfield's single-layer digital neural network led to the 'deep' networks in use today. At Princeton, the two researchers invented something called dense associative memory, which lifted the memory storage limits of those early Hopfield networks, opening them to practical applications.