Richard S. Sutton

Biography

Richard Stuart Sutton FRS FRSC (born 1957 or 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist . He is a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta , fellow & Chief Scientific Advisor at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute , and a research scientist at Keen Technologies. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Sutton is considered one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning . [ 7 ] In particular, he contributed to temporal difference learning and policy gradient methods . [ 8 ] He received the 2024 Turing Award with Andrew Barto . [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Richard Sutton was born in either 1957 or 1958 [ 11 ] [ 12 ] in Ohio , and grew up in Oak Brook, Illinois , a suburb of Chicago, United States. [ 13 ] Sutton received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in psychology from Stanford University in 1978 before taking a Master of Science (1980) and PhD [ 2 ] (1984) in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst supervised by Andrew Barto . [ 2 ] His doctoral dissertation [ 2 ] introduced actor-critic architectures and temporal credit assignment . [ 14 ] [ 8 ] Education: Stanford University BA University of Massachusetts, Amherst MS PhD Award Citation: .mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0} AAAI Fellow (2001) Turing Award (2024)

About the Turing Award

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."

Quick Facts

• Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
• Added: 2026-02-07
• Source: Wikipedia
• Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
• Presented by: ACM

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