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Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist who served as Director of Research at Google, where he worked on search quality, machine translation, and other large-scale systems. With Stuart Russell, he co-authored 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,' one of the most widely used AI textbooks. Earlier he held roles at NASA Ames and Sun Microsystems. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Peter Norvig ranks #68 of 185 in the Computer Scientist ranking, behind Maurice Herlihy, ahead of Rodney Brooks.
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What is 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach' and who co-authored it?
'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach' (AIMA), co-authored by Peter Norvig and Stuart Russell, is the most widely used AI textbook in universities worldwide. First published in 1995, it is now in its fourth edition and has been adopted at over 1,500 universities.
What was Peter Norvig's role at Google?
Norvig served as Director of Research at Google, where he led teams working on search quality, machine learning, and natural language understanding. He joined Google in 2001 and was instrumental in shaping the company's research agenda for over two decades.
What did Peter Norvig work on before Google?
Before Google, Norvig worked at NASA's Ames Research Center, where he was Chief of the Computational Sciences Division. He also worked on the development of automatic spell correction and natural language systems, and co-developed the JasPara text processing system.
What is Peter Norvig's educational background?
Norvig earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a Bachelor's degree from Brown University. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from multiple institutions for his contributions to AI.
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