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Richard S. Sutton

Canadian computer scientist · Canada · Scientists · Born 1950 · age 76

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Richard Stuart Sutton 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.

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2024Turing AwardAward2021Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward2001AAAI FellowAward1950Born

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Turing Award2024
Fellow of the Royal Society2021
AAAI Fellow2001

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Richard Stuart Sutton 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. Sutton is considered one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning. In particular, he contributed to temporal difference learning and policy gradient methods. He received the 2024 Turing Award with Andrew Barto.

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Born 1950 · age 76

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