Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig

Norvig speaking at UC Berkeley (2013)
Born (1956-12-14) December 14, 1956
Nationality American
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Google
Ames Research Center
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[1]
Known for

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

Signature

Website
www.norvig.com

Peter Norvig (born December 14, 1956) is an American computer scientist. He is a Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc.[2][3][4][5]

Educational background

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 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 Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Brown University[6] and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

Research

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[7] and software engineering including the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,[8] Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp,[9] Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX.[10]

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.[11] In 2011, Norvig worked with Sebastian Thrun to develop a popular online course in Artificial Intelligence[12] that had more than 160,000 students enrolled.[13] He also teaches an online course via the Udacity platform.[14] He believes that a teaching revolution, fostered by computer tools, is pending.[15]

Non-academic writing

In 2001, Norvig published a short article titled "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years", arguing against the fashionable introductory programming textbooks that purported to teach programming in days or weeks.[16] The article was widely shared and discussed, and has attracted contributed translations to over 20 languages.[16]

Norvig is also known for his "Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation",[17] a satire about bad presentation practices[18] using Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address.

References

  1. 1 2 Norvig, Peter (1986). A Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley.
  2. ↑ "Peter Norvig's home page". Norvig.com. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  3. ↑ Peter Norvig's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  4. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  5. ↑ Peter Norvig's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  6. ↑ Halevy, A.; Norvig, P.; Pereira, F. (2009). "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" (PDF). IEEE Intelligent Systems 24 (2): 8–12. doi:10.1109/MIS.2009.36.
  7. ↑ Michel, J. -B.; Shen, Y. K.; Aiden, A. P.; Veres, A.; Gray, M. K.; Google Books, J. P.; Pickett, D.; Hoiberg, D.; Clancy, P.; Norvig, J.; Orwant, S.; Pinker, M. A.; Nowak, E. L.; Aiden, E. L. (2011). "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books". Science 331 (6014): 176–182. Bibcode:2011Sci...331..176M. doi:10.1126/science.1199644. PMC 3279742. PMID 21163965.
  8. ↑ 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
  9. ↑ Norvig, Peter (1992), Paradigms of artificial intelligence programming: case studies in common LISP, Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufman Publishers, ISBN 1-55860-191-0
  10. ↑ ″Intelligent Help Systems for Unix″
  11. ↑ "Singularity University list of Faculty and Advisors". Singularityu.org. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
  12. ↑ "Intro to AI - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Oct-Dec 2011". Ai-class.com. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
  13. ↑ Naughton, John (2012-02-05). "Welcome to the desktop degree | Technology | The Observer". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
  14. ↑ "Udacity - Design of Computer Programs". Udacity.com. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  15. ↑ "A classroom with 100 000 students". June 2012.
  16. 1 2 "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years". Norvig.com. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
  17. ↑ "The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation". Norvig.com. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  18. ↑ Norvig, P. (2003). "PowerPoint: Shot with its own bullets". The Lancet 362 (9381): 343–344. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14056-1. PMID 12907004.

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