Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google Inc.
Friday, October 21
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Google's core search algorithms group and of NASA Ames's Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA's senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He was co-teacher of an Artifical Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. His publications include the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world's longest palindromic sentence. He is a fellow of the AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), California Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
