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'''Peter Norvig''' is an [[United States|American]] [[computer science|computer scientist]]. He is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at [[ |
'''Peter Norvig''' is an [[United States|American]] [[computer science|computer scientist]]. He is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at [[Google|Google Inc.]]<ref>http://www.norvig.com/ Peter Norvig's home page</ref> |
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==Educational Background== |
==Educational Background== |
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Peter Norvig | |
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| Born | 1956 |
| Nationality |  American |
| Alma mater | Brown University, University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc.[1]
Educational Background
He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the leading college text in the field. He previously 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 B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He 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[2] and Software Engineering including the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach[3], Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX.
Research
Norvig is also known for his "Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation",[4] a satire about bad presentation practices[5] using Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address.
Norvig is one of the creators of JScheme. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. Norvig is listed under "Academic Faculty & Advisors" for the Singularity University.[6]
References
- ^ http://www.norvig.com/ Peter Norvig's home page
- ^ Attention: This template ({{cite pmid}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by PMID 21163965, please use {{cite journal}} with
|pmid=21163965instead. - ^ Russell, Stuart J.; Norvig, Peter (2003), Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd ed.), Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-790395-2
- ^ http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/
- ^ Attention: This template ({{cite pmid}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by PMID 12907004, please use {{cite journal}} with
|pmid= 12907004instead. - ^ "Singularity University list of Faculty and Advisors". Retrieved 2009-10-08.
External links
- The Prospects for AI, featuring Neil Jacobstein, Patrick Lincoln, Peter Norvig, and Bruno Olshausen
- An experiment by Norvig on Scientific opinion on climate change
- NASA Ames Research Center's Intelligent Systems Division
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years