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Richard Stuart Sutton is a Canadian computer scientist. He is a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta and chief scientific advisor at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. In 2024, Sutton received the Turing Award alongside his supervisor Andrew Barto for their work in reinforcement learning.

Most cited

255 papers in total

1998 · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

27,141 citationsRead

1998

Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

6,620 citations

1988 · Machine Learning

Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences

5,081 citationsRead

1999

Policy Gradient Methods for Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation

4,563 citations

1983 · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics

Neuronlike adaptive elements that can solve difficult learning control problems

3,231 citationsRead

1999 · Artificial Intelligence

Between MDPs and semi-MDPs: A framework for temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning

3,094 citationsRead