Peter Norvig is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc., with the mission of organizing the world's information to make it universally accessible and useful. Google, Inc. ...

He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the standard college text. He previously 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, neuro-engineering, 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. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence or AAAI is a North American organization dedicated to advancing understanding of artificial intelligence (AI). ... Stuart Russell (born 1962) is a computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence. ... Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (ISBN 0137903952) (AIMA) is the current standard college text book on Artificial Intelligence and is written by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig. ... Aerial View of Moffett Field and NASA Ames Research Center. ... Junglee is a 1961 Indian Hindi movie produced and directed by Subodh Mukherjee. ... Harlequin was a privately funded software company founded by Jo Marks, which had two main lines of business - digital pre-press (primarily ScriptWorks, a PostScript language compatible RIP), and modern language development environments (compilers and IDEs) for Lisp, ML and Dylan. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ...

Dr. Norvig received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a Professor at the University of Southern California and a Research Faculty Member at Berkeley. He has over fifty publications in various areas of Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering including the books Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach, Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ... The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]), located in the University Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ... Hondas humanoid robot AI redirects here. ... Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence and linguistics. ...

Dr. Norvig is also known for his "Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation", a satire about bad presentation practices using Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was an American politician who served as the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... Selection from the Nicolay Copy of the Gettysburg Address, handwritten by Lincoln himself. ...

Peter Norvig is one of the creators of JScheme. JScheme is a zlib-licenced Scheme implementation, created by Ken Anderson, Tim Hickey and Peter Norvig, which is almost compliant with R4RS and has an interface to Java. ...

In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. ... The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ...

External links

• Peter Norvig's home page
• The Prospects for AI, featuring Neil Jacobstein, Patrick Lincoln, Peter Norvig, and Bruno Olshausen
• An experiment by Norvig on Scientific opinion on climate change
• NASA Ames Research Center's Intelligent Systems Division
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years