Peter Norvig

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Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig (born May 12, 1956 ) is an American scientist in the field of artificial intelligence , author and programmer. Norvig currently works as Director of Research at Google Inc.

biography

In 1985, Norvig completed a degree in computer science at the University of Berkeley with a Ph.D. from. He then worked for various startups and Sun Microsystems . From 1998 to 2001 he was the head of the computer science department at NASA's Ames Research Center . He has been working for Google since 2001.

He has been a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery since 2006 . In 2013 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Norvig is also known for the Powerpoint version of the Gettysburg Address , a satire of bad presentations. Norvig's Erdős number is three.

Fonts

  • Stuart Russell , Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach . 3. Edition. Pearson, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86894-098-5 (English: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach . 2011. According to Norvig, the leading textbook in the field).
  • Stephen J. Hegner, Paul Mc Kevitt, Peter Norvig, Robert Wilensky (Eds.): Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX . Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, ISBN 0-7923-6641-7 .
  • Martin Kay, Jean Mark Gawron, Peter Norvig: Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog . Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1992, ISBN 978-0-937073-95-7 .
  • Peter Norvig: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp . Morgan Kaufmann, 1992, ISBN 1-55860-191-0 .

literature

  • Peter Seibel: Coders at Work: Important programmers and their success stories . mitp, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8266-9103-4 , chapter 8: Peter Norvig , p. 265–296 (English: Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming . 2009. Translated by Reinhard Engel).

Web links

Commons : Peter Norvig  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norvig, Peter (1956 -....) , authority entry in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF). Retrieved August 23, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Peter Norvig. Retrieved October 24, 2009 .
  3. ↑ a b Coders at Work: Peter Norvig. Retrieved October 24, 2009 .
  4. ^ A b Peter Norvig: Resume / Vita / CV / Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved October 24, 2009 .
  5. ^ The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
  6. ^ Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Retrieved November 3, 2013 .
  7. ^ Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. Retrieved September 28, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Norvig, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American programmer and scientist in the field of artificial intelligence
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1956