By Cade Metz Cade Metz has covered the last five winners of the Turing Award for The New York Times. In June 1972, Bob Metcalfe, a 26-year-old engineer fresh out of graduate school, joined a new ...

On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest society of computing professionals, announced that Dr. Barto and Dr. Sutton had won this year’s Turing Award for ...

Two trailblazing scientists who today received this year’s Turing Award for creating fundamental artificial intelligence ...

Decades on, with the technique they pioneered now increasingly critical to modern artificial intelligence and programs like ChatGPT, Barto and Sutton have been awarded the Turing Award ...

Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward ...

Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning ...

The prestigious Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” has honored its latest recipients, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, for their monumental contributions to the ...

At Upper Bound in Edmonton, Canadian Turing Award winner Richard Sutton said humans should look at AI with “courage, pride, ...

Portions of this essay were written with the deliberate assistance of the Google Gemini large language model.

Along with Edmund M. Clarke and Joseph Sifakis, Emerson was awarded the 2007 A.M. Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery, the highest honor in computer science, for research in an ...