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Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director

of Search Quality) at Google Inc.

He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with

Stuart Russell, ofArtificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the standard college text. He previously

was head of the Computational Sciences Division (now the Intelligent Systems Division

(http://ti.arc.nasa.gov) ) 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.

Dr. 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 and

Software Engineering including the booksArtificial 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.

Dr. Norvig is also known for his "Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation (http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/)

", a satire about bad presentation practices using Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address.

Peter Norvig is one of the creators of JScheme.

In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Dr. Norvig is listed under "Academic Faculty & Advisors" for the Singularity University.[1]

Peter Norvig's home page (http://www.norvig.com/)

The Prospects for AI (http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail713.html) , featuring Neil

Jacobstein, Patrick Lincoln, Peter Norvig, and Bruno Olshausen

An experiment by Norvig (http://www.norvig.com/oreskes.html) on Scientific opinion on climate

change

NASA Ames Research Center's Intelligent Systems Division (http://ti.arc.nasa.gov)

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html)

1. ^ "Singularity University list of Faculty and Advisors". http://singularityu.org/academics/faculty-advisors/.

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