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Andrew Barto Co-Recipient of 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award
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Andrew Barto Named Co-recipient of ‘Nobel Prize of Computing’ for Foundational Work on AI Technology

Andrew G. Barto, has been awarded the 2024 ACM A.M Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.
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Healey-Driscoll Administration Launches New Partnership with UMass Amherst to Recruit Students to Work with State Agencies on AI Projects for Social Good
Search Advisory Committee Appointed for New Dean of Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
Chhaglani, Liu Selected for Spring 2024 Health Tech for the People Graduate Student Fellows
Cybersecurity Institute Hackathon Focuses on Tools to Fight Child Abuse Online

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Andrew Barto Co-Recipient of 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award
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Andrew Barto Named Co-recipient of ‘Nobel Prize of Computing’ for Foundational Work on AI Technology

Andrew G. Barto, has been awarded the 2024 ACM A.M Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.
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Siobhan Meï Curates New York Exhibition on Haitian History and Culture

The show, based on Meï’s digital humanities project of the same name, is a queer, bilingual, feminist experiment in digital interdisciplinary scholarship.
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UMass Amherst Hosts Inaugural Reinforcement Learning Conference

UMass Amherst, the birthplace of reinforcement learning, hosted the first conference dedicated to the field in 2024.
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