Peter Stone, UTCS Professor and Director of Texas Robotics, earned the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for his significant contributions in machine learning and artifical intelligence.
Peter Stone, Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin and Chief Scientist at Sony AI, has received the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence. His research has transformed how autonomous agents learn from experience, collaborate in teams, and adapt across tasks—contributions that have shaped the fields of reinforcement learning, multiagent systems, and intelligent robotics.
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