Two pioneers in the field of reinforcement learning, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, are the winners of this year's A M Turing Award, the tech world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Research that ...

Andrew Barto (left) and Richard Sutton (right). Courtesy Association for Computing Machiner This year’s Turing Award, an honor often dubbed the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” goes to two A.I ...

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience.

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco In 1977, Andrew Barto, as a researcher at ...

Few actors can claim a career arc as successful as Adrien Brody’s. More than two decades after his groundbreaking Oscar win for The Pianist, he has once again clinched the Academy Award for Best Actor ...

Playing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at the end of the first half, Cho’s anticipation more than paid off. But the Sibelius 5 that followed proved that Rouvali — making a long-anticipated ...

A Juilliard-trained pianist was found guilty of murdering a woman after he claimed he killed her in order to protect her daughter from abuse. On Feb. 20, a South Carolina jury found Zachary Hughes ...

Arakawa had a successful career in her own right and was trained as a classical pianist. Alongside her musical talents, Hackman’s wife also helped design their Santa Fe home, which was featured ...

Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) Betsy Arakawa, a concert pianist and co-founder of a home furnishing business, was found dead Wednesday in her Santa Fe, New Mexico, home along ...

On Wednesday evening, Daniil Trifonov returned to the Kimmel Center’s Marian Anderson Hall. It was a homecoming of sorts for the pianist, after he soloed with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the opening ...

Though gone, Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s love will live on. The couple, aged 95 and 65, were found dead in their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home alongside their dog on Feb. 26, the Santa Fe ...

Betsy Arakawa, a concert pianist and co-founder of a home furnishing business, was found dead Wednesday in her Santa Fe, New Mexico, home along with actor-husband Gene Hackman and their dog, according ...