ACM Turing Award 2024
- Award Name
- ACM Turing Award 2024
- Details
The 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award (often called the "Nobel Prize of Computing") was awarded to Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning (RL). Their decades of work, beginning in the 1980s, established RL as a major branch of machine learning powering modern AI systems including AlphaGo and large language models. The award carries a $1 million prize.
- Category
- Scientific
- Year
- 2024
- Recipient
- Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton
- Field/Category
- Computer Science