Peter Norvig

Director of Research, Google

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 Association for the Advancement of 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 the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, making him NASA's senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001.

Dr. Norvig has served as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California and a research faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science Department, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He has over fifty publications in Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering, including the books 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.

At the 2007 Singularity Summit in San Francisco, hosted by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peter Norvig gave a keynote lecture entitled "The History and Future of Technological Change." There he observed that the invention of new technology is limited only by the laws of science and by the degree of ingenuity in the lab. But the proliferation of new technology into everyday life is a complex social process involving entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, international corporations, politicians, consumers, and dumb luck.

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Convergence: Artificial Intelligence Panel

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2007 Singularity Summit, The History and Future of Technological Change
2007 Singularity Institute, Interview Series
2007 Google Developer Day, Theorizing from Data
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, The Future of Search
2007 Singularity Summit, The History and Future of Technological Change

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2007 Singularity Summit, The History and Future of Technological Change
SIAI Interview Series, Creating Tools of Narrow Superintelligence

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2007 Singularity Summit, The History and Future of Technological Change
SIAI Interview Series, Creating Tools of Narrow Superintelligence
2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, IT Tech, From the Labs: Google Labs