ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has awarded the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award to Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton for their contributions to reinforcement learning.
Barto and Sutton's work laid the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning, influencing modern artificial intelligence.
Their contributions include formalizing reinforcement learning as a general problem framework, introducing key algorithms, and their influential textbook 'Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction'.
This recognition highlights the lasting significance of reinforcement learning in computing and its applications in various industries.