Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win 2024 Turing Award

The Association for Computing Machinery, has named Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award. The pair have received the honour for "developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning". In a series of papers beginning in the 1980s, Barto and Sutton introduced the main ideas, constructed the mathematical foundations, and developed important algorithms for reinforcement learning. The Turing Award comes with a 1 million prize, to be split between the recipients. Since its inception in 1966, the award has honoured computer scientists and engineers on a yearly basis.