Peter Norvig
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Norvig speaking at UC Berkeley (2013)
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| Born | December 14, 1956 |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Computer Science |
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Google Ames Research Center University of Southern California Brown University University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
Brown University University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | A Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Wilensky |
| Known for |
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp |
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Peter Norvig (born December 14, 1956) is an American computer scientist. He is a Director of Research at Google Inc., and used to be its Director of Search Quality.
He is a Fellow and Councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the leading college text in the field. He was head of the Computational Sciences Division (now the Intelligent Systems Division) at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw a staff of 200 scientists performing NASA's research and development in autonomy and robotics, automated software engineering and data analysis, neuroengineering, collaborative systems research, and simulation-based decision-making. Before that he was Chief Scientist at Junglee, where he helped develop one of the first Internet comparison shopping services; Chief designer at Harlequin Inc.; and Senior Scientist at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
Norvig received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Norvig has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California and a Research Faculty Member at Berkeley. He has over fifty publications in various areas of Computer Science, concentrating on artificial intelligence, natural language processing, information retrieval and software engineering including the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp,Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX.
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