Rich Sutton receives the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award
5 March 2025
Richard Sutton, professor with the Department of Computing Science, has been honoured as co-recipient of the 2024 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award. Photo credit: Amii
Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton are named by ACM as the recipients of the 2024 A.M. Turing Award, which is often described as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”; it recognizes individuals who have made groundbreaking contributions to computer science and includes a $1 million prize. The 2024 Turing award is being awarded for laying the foundations to Reinforcement Learning - to this day, one of the most influential approaches to Artificial Intelligence.
See the official announcement for more detail.