Stuart J. Russell
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| Born | Stuart Jonathan Russell 1962 (age 54–55) Portsmouth, England |
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| Fields | Artificial Intelligence |
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Wadham College, Oxford Stanford University |
| Thesis | Analogical and Inductive Reasoning (1987) |
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| Known for | Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach |
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Stuart Jonathan Russell (born 1962) is a computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence. As of 2016[update] he is Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.
Stuart Russell was born in Portsmouth, England. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in Physics from Wadham College, Oxford in 1982, and his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1986 for research on inductive reasoning and analogical reasoning supervised by .
After his PhD, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently Professor of Computer Science. He also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, where he pursues research in computational physiology and intensive-care unit monitoring.
In 2016, he founded the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley, with co-principal investigators Pieter Abbeel, Anca Dragan, Tom Griffiths, Bart Selman, Joseph Halpern, Michael Wellman and Satinder Singh Baveja.Along with Peter Norvig, he is the author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, a textbook used by over 1300 universities in 116 countries. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Future of Life Institute and the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
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