# Richard Sutton
**Domain:** Machine Learning / Reinforcement Learning
**Doc Type:** Person
**Maturity:** Developed
**Related:** [[Temporal-Difference Learning]], [[Andrew Barto]], [[Reinforcement Learning]], [[Schedule and Loop]]
## Definition
Richard Sutton is a computer scientist whose work with Andrew Barto helped establish modern reinforcement learning and temporal-difference methods.
## Schedule–Loop Context
Sutton's work formalizes learning through prediction error and makes the schedule-loop synthesis operational in machine systems.
## Backlinks
- [[Schedule and Loop]]
- [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]]
- [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]