RefNo | EC/2021/39 |
Level | Item |
Title | Silver, David: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
Date | 21 April 2021 |
Description | Certificate endorsing election of David Silver as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Fellow, citation giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
Citation | For ground-breaking research in the field of deep reinforcement learning and advances in AI. Professor Silver has made major contributions to seminal projects including DQN, the world's first end-to-end reinforcement learning system, and AlphaGo, trained through self-play to become the first program to defeat a world champion Go player, a feat considered by many to be a decade ahead of its time. These successes have spurred huge interest in the research community in deep reinforcement learning techniques and their application to real-world problems. Professor Silver is also notable for his leadership in the AI community and his commitment to teaching. |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Computer printout |
PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
AccessStatus | Closed |
AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers and date certificate was first submitted for candidacy are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |