Peter norvig biography

Peter Norvig

American computer scientist (born )

Peter Norvig (born December 14, ) is an American computer scientist and Distinguished Education Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI.[4] He previously served as a director of research and search quality at Google.[5][2][6] 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, universities in countries.[7]

Education

Norvig received a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics from Brown University[8] and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.[3]

Career and research

Norvig is a councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart J. Russell, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the leading college text in the field.[9] He was head of the Computational Sciences Division (now the Intelligent Systems Division) at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw a staff of 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 has served as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California and as 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[10] and software engineering, including the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,[11]Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp,[12]Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX.[13]

Norvig is one of the creators of JScheme. Norvig is listed under "Academic Faculty & Advisors" for the Singularity University.[14] In , Norvig worked with Sebastian Thrun to develop a popular online course in Artificial Intelligence[15] that had more than , students enrolled.[16] He also teaches an online course via the Udacity platform.[17]

Selected publications and presentations

By , Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, which Norvig first co-authored with Stuart J. Russell in , was the leading textbook in the field used by over schools globally.[9][7]

In , Norvig published a short article titled Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years,[18] arguing against the fashionable introductory programming textbooks that purported to teach programming in days or weeks. The article was widely shared and discussed, and has attracted contributed translations to over 20 languages.[18]

Norvig is also known for his Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation,[19] a satire about bad presentation practices[20] using Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address.

His IEEE Intelligent Systems article, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" co-authored with Alon Y. Halevy and Fernando Pereira, described how the best approach to highly complex natural language understanding problems is to harness large quantities of data, not to depend on "tidy", simple formulas.[8] They said that by generating "large amounts of unlabeled, noisy data, new algorithms can be used to build high-quality models from the data. This has informed the development of foundation models.[8] "But invariably, simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data."[8]:&#;9&#; "Choose a representation that can use unsupervised learning on unlabeled data, which is so much more plentiful than labeled data."[8]:&#;12&#; The title refers to the physicistEugene Wigner's journal article, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".[21]

In a 23 September lecture presented as part of the Vancouver-based University of British Columbia's Department of Computer Science's Distinguished Lecture Series, Norvig, who was then the Director of Research at Google, described how large quantities of data deepen our understanding of phenomena.[22]

In his June Ted Talk, described the fall of hybrid class on artificial intelligence attended by , online students around the globe that he co-taught with Sebastian Thrun at Stanford University.[23]

Awards and honors

Norvig was elected an AAAI Fellow in and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in

References

  1. ^"Elected AAAI Fellows". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved 23 September
  2. ^ abPeter Norvig publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. ^ abNorvig, Peter (). A Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC&#; ProQuest&#;
  4. ^Lynch, Shana (). "Peter Norvig: Today's Most Pressing Questions in AI Are Human-Centered". Stanford University.
  5. ^"Peter Norvig's home page". Retrieved 1 April
  6. ^Peter Norvig at DBLP Bibliography Server
  7. ^ ab" Schools Worldwide That Have Adopted AIMA". Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. 22 August Retrieved 29 February
  8. ^ abcdeHalevy, Alon; Norvig, P.; Pereira, Fernando (). Brannon, Brian (ed.). "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data"(PDF). IEEE Intelligent Systems. 24 (2): 8– doi/MIS S2CID&#; Retrieved 21 September
  9. ^ abRussell, Stuart J.; Norvig, Peter () []. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (4&#;ed.). Prentice Hall. p.&#; ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
  10. ^Michel, J. -B.; Shen, Y. K.; Aiden, A. P.; Veres, A.; Gray, M. K.; Google Books Team; Pickett, D.; Hoiberg, D.; Clancy, P.; Norvig, J.; Orwant, S.; Pinker, M. A.; Nowak, E. L.; Aiden, E. L. (). "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books"(PDF). Science. (): – BibcodeSciM. doi/science PMC&#; PMID&#;
  11. ^Russell, Stuart J.; Norvig, Peter (), Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd&#;ed.), Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, ISBN&#;
  12. ^Norvig, Peter (), Paradigms of artificial intelligence programming: case studies in common LISP, Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ISBN&#;
  13. ^Hegner, Stephen J.; Kevitt, Paul Mc; Norvig, Peter; Wilensky, Robert L. (6 December ). Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN&#;.
  14. ^"Singularity University list of Faculty and Advisors". Archived from the original on 13 October Retrieved 8 October
  15. ^"Intro to AI - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Oct-Dec ". Archived from the original on 17 October Retrieved 5 February
  16. ^Naughton, John (5 February ). "Welcome to the desktop degree". The Guardian via The Observer. Retrieved 5 February
  17. ^"Udacity - Design of Computer Programs". Archived from the original on 13 April Retrieved 26 October
  18. ^ ab"Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years". Retrieved 6 June
  19. ^"The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation". Retrieved 26 October
  20. ^Norvig, P. (). "PowerPoint: Shot with its own bullets". The Lancet. (): – doi/S(03) PMID&#; S2CID&#;
  21. ^Wigner, Eugene P. (). "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences". Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 13 (1): 1– BibcodeCPAMW. doi/cpa S2CID&#; Archived from the original on 12 February The Richard Courant lecture in mathematical sciences delivered at New York University, May 11,
  22. ^Peter Norvig (guest), UBC Computer Science (Host) (11 October ) []. How Billions of Trivial Data Points can Lead to Understanding. Event occurs at Retrieved 21 September &#; via YouTube.
  23. ^Norvig, Peter (June ). "A classroom with students". TED Talk. Retrieved 21 September

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