Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig in 2019
Born (1956-12-14) 14 December 1956
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University
University of California, Berkeley
Known forArtificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial Intelligence
InstitutionsStanford University
Google
Ames Research Center
University of Southern California
Brown University
University of California, Berkeley
ThesisA Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding (1986)
Doctoral advisorRobert Wilensky
Websitewww.norvig.com
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Peter Norvig (born 14 December 1956) is an American computer scientist and Distinguished Education Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. He previously served as a director of research and search quality at Google. Norvig is the co-author with Stuart J. Russell of the most popular textbook in the field of AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries.