Peter Norvig
Distinguished Education Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
A computer scientist who co-wrote the standard AI textbook and led research and search quality at Google before moving to Stanford's human-centered AI institute.
Biography
Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist and Distinguished Education Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. He earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Brown University and a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
He headed the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw about 200 scientists, and held earlier roles at Junglee, Harlequin and Sun Microsystems Laboratories. He later served as director of research and search quality at Google. With Stuart Russell he co-authored Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, first published in 1995. In 2011 he worked with Sebastian Thrun on an online AI course that enrolled more than 160,000 students.
Notable contributions
Co-authored Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Co-wrote with Stuart Russell the textbook first published in 1995, now the leading college text in the field.
Led NASA Ames's computational sciences research
Headed the Computational Sciences Division, later the Intelligent Systems Division, overseeing about 200 scientists working on autonomy, robotics, data analysis and simulation-based decision-making.
Co-taught a 160,000-student online AI course
Worked with Sebastian Thrun to develop an online course in artificial intelligence that enrolled more than 160,000 students, an early example of large-scale open AI education.