I have to disagree on that. Hinton without a doubt has made major contributions, but he's nowhere near a Nobel equivalent. Plenty of researchers also aren't given nearly enough credit for deep learning research, so don't let Schmidhuber hear you saying that ;)
I wouldn't be surprised if he got a Turing award eventually.
also, he is the the great grandson of george boole or something. that blew my mind
There is no doubt he is getting the Turing award which is equivalent of Nobel in Computer Science.
Why Nobel and not a Turing award?
The Turing award is one of those awards many people in the field know about; each research field has their own nobody else has heard about. Nobels are the award that everybody knows about.
exactly the reason the central bank of sweden created the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel as part of a marketing scheme of it's 100th anniversary