Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig (born January 14, 1956) is an American computer scientist . He is a Director of Research at Google Inc. En-used to be zijn Director of Search Quality. [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 , or Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach , now the leading college text in the field [ citation needed ] . He 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 dat he was Chief Scientist at Junglee, where he helped developement 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 degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University [6] and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley . [1]

Research

Norvig has leg an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California and a Research Faculty Member at Berkeley. He has over fifty publications in verschillende areas of Computer Science, concentrating on artificial intelligence , natural language processing , information retrieval [7] and software engineering waaronder 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 or 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 dévelop a popular online course in Artificial Intelligence [12] dat had morethan 160,000 students enrolled. [13] He’ll be teaches an online course through the Udacity platform. [14] He convinced dat 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 text books dat 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 have died Berninahaus for his “Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation”, [17] a satire about bath presentation practices [18] using Abraham Lincoln ‘s famous Gettysburg Address .

References

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b Norvig, Peter (1986). A Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley.
  2. Jump up^ “Peter Norvig’s homepage” . Norvig.com . Retrieved 2012-10-26 .
  3. Jump up^ Peter Norvig’s publicationsindexed byGoogle Scholar
  4. Jump up^ List of publicationsfromMicrosoft Academic Search
  5. Jump up^ Peter NorvigatDBLPBibliography Server
  6. Jump up^ 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. Jump up^ Michel, J. -B .; Shen, YK; Aiden, AP; Veres, A .; Gray, MN; Google Books, JP; Pickett, D .; Hoiberg, D .; Clancy, P .; Norvig, J .; Orwant, S .; Pinker, MA; Nowak, EL; Aiden, EL (2011). “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books” . Science . 331 (6014): 176-182. Bibkey : 2011Sci … 331..176M . doi : 10.1126 / science.1199644 . PMC  3279742 . PMID  21163965 .
  8. Jump up^ 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. Jump up^ Norvig, Peter (1992), Paradigms or artificial intelligence programming: case studies in common LISP , Amsterdam, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, ISBN  1-55860-191-0
  10. Jump up^ “Intelligent Help Systems for Unix”
  11. Jump up^ “Singularity University list or Faculty and Advisors” . Singularityu.org . Retrieved 2009-10-08 .
  12. Jump up^ “Introduction to AI – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence – Oct-Dec 2011” . Ai-class.com . Retrieved 2012-02-05 .
  13. Jump up^ Naughton, John (2012-02-05). “Welcome to the desktop degree | Technology | The Observer” . The Guardian . Retrieved 2012-02-05 .
  14. Jump up^ “Udacity – Design of Computer Programs” . Udacity.com . Retrieved 2012-10-26 .
  15. Jump up^ “A classroom with 100,000 students” . June 2012.
  16. ^ Jump up to:a b “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years” . Norvig.com . Retrieved 2015-08-20 .
  17. Jump up^ “The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation” . Norvig.com . Retrieved 2012-10-26 .
  18. Jump up^ Norvig, P. (2003). “PowerPoint: Shot with zijn eigen bullets”. The Lancet . 362 (9381): 343-344. doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (03) 14056-1 . PMID  12907004 .