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Richard Sutton is co-recipient of the 2024 A.M. Turing Award Posted: March 6, 2025

Canadian computer scientist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton won the 2024 Turing Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize in computing science. He shared the $1M prize with longtime collaborator and mentor Andrew Barto of MIT. More at the University of Alberta.   

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