Peter Norvig

Bio

Peter Norvig is the Director of Research at Google Inc., where he has been since 2001. From 2002-2005 he was Director of Search Quality, which means he was the manager of record responsible for answering more queries than anyone else in the history of the world. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field (with 94% market share). Previously he was the head of Computational Sciences at NASA and a faculty member at USC and Berkeley.