Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton win the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award
On behalf of the European mathematical community, we congratulate Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton, who have been awarded the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award “for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.”
Barto, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Sutton, Professor at the University of Alberta, have played a foundational role in shaping the field of reinforcement learning—a branch of artificial intelligence that models how agents can learn optimal behavior through interaction with their environment.
Since the 1980s, their pioneering work has provided the mathematical and algorithmic underpinnings of reinforcement learning, leading to advances that have profoundly influenced AI research and applications ranging from robotics to game playing and decision-making systems.
For more information and the official citation, see the ACM Turing Award webpage.
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