# Andrew Barto **Domain:** Machine Learning / Reinforcement Learning **Doc Type:** Person **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Temporal-Difference Learning]], [[Richard Sutton]], [[Reinforcement Learning]], [[Schedule and Loop]] ## Definition Andrew Barto is a computer scientist whose work with Richard Sutton helped establish modern reinforcement learning. ## Schedule–Loop Context Barto's contribution belongs at the junction where behavioral reinforcement becomes a model-updating control process implementable in software. ## Backlinks - [[Schedule and Loop]] - [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]] - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]