Peter Norvig ( English Peter Norvig ) - American scientist in the field of computing . Currently working as research director (previously - director for search quality) at Google .
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Date of Birth | December 14, 1956 (62 years) |
A country | USA |
Scientific field | Computer Engineering |
Place of work | Sun microsystems harlequin company Intelligent Systems Division, NASA google corporation |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Awards and prizes | [d] ( 2006 ) [d] |
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Site | www.norvig.com |
Member of the Council of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence and co-author of Stuart Russell on the book Artificial Intelligence: The modern approach , which is currently the standard textbook in many educational institutions. Previously, he was the head of the Computer Engineering Division (now the Intelligent Systems Division ) at the NASA Ames Research Center, where he led a staff of two hundred scientists involved in NASA developments in the areas of anatomy and robotics, automated software development and data analysis, neuroengineering, development of collective systems, and decision making based on simulation. Previously, he was a leading scholar in Jangli, where he helped develop the first Internet comparative shopping service; Chief Designer at Harlequin ; senior scientist at Sun Microsystems laboratories .
Dr. Norvig earned a bachelor’s degree (Bachelor of Science, BS) in applied mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley . He was a senior lecturer at the University of Southern California and a member of the Burkeley research group. He has more than fifty publications in various fields of computer science, mainly in the field of artificial intelligence , natural language processing, and software development, including the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach , Translation System for Common Libra , Verbmobil: Face-to-Face Dialog , and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX .
Dr. Norvig is also known for his “ Gettysburg Presentation, ” a satire on poor presentation practices that uses the image of the Gettysburg Message from Abraham Lincoln .
P. Norvig is also known as one of the creators of JScheme .
In 2006, he officially became a member of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2011, together with Sebastian Troon, he worked on the online course on Artificial Intelligence [1] .
Bibliography
- Stuart Russell , Peter Norvig . Artificial Intelligence: Modern Approach (AIMA) = Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (AIMA). - 2nd ed. - M .: “Williams” , 2007. - P. 1424. - ISBN 0-13-790395-2 .