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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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Michael Smith arrives in his office wearing his usual shabby old sweater and trousers that long ago should have been sent to a charity like the Salvation Army. You would never guess that just a few days before he had been awarded half a million dollars, his share of the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Smith passes by a wall of shallow shelves jammed full of medals, awards and plaques for prizes he...

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In 1986 Julia Levy was giving a talk to some doctors in Waterloo, Ontario about her work on new light-activated drugs. A few years before, she had formed a spinoff company called Quadra Logic Technologies (now QLT Inc.) to commercialize her university research. The doctors were trying these drugs on cancer patients and they were very upset because Johnson & Johnson, another drug company, was...

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A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries

The muon collider was once dismissed as impossible, but is now gaining steam as the successor to the Large Hadron Collider. If built, it could offer a new window to reality 

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