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[[FILE:Peter Norvig speaking at University of California, Berkeley.jpg|border|right|thumb| Peter Norvig <ref>Peter Norvig speaking at [[University of California, Berkeley]], October 02, 2013, Photo by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dcoetzee Derrick Coetzee], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norvig Peter Norvig from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Peter Norvig''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] researcher, software developer and director of research at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google Google Inc.] <ref>[http://norvig.com/ Peter Norvig]</ref>.
He received a Ph.D. in CS from [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1986 on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing natural language processing] <ref>[[Peter Norvig]] ('''1986'''). ''A Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding''. Ph. D. thesis, [[University of California, Berkeley]], advisor [[Mathematician#RWilensky|Robert Wilensky]]</ref>,
has been an assistant professor at the [[University of Southern California]] and a research faculty member at Berkeley, and was further affiliated with [[Stanford University]], [[Sun Microsystems]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin_%28software_company%29 Harlequin], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junglee.com Junglee] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA NASA] <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/pnorvig Peter Norvig | LinkedIn]</ref> , where his division developed the remote agent experiment that flew on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_1 Deep Space 1] spacecraft. He is a fellow of the [[AAAI]], [[ACM]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Academy_of_Sciences California Academy of Science] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences] <ref>[http://norvig.com/bio.html Peter Norvig Bio]</ref>.
=Strachey's Checkers Program=
In 2011, Peter Norvig re-published a corrected annotated version of [[Christopher Strachey|Christopher Strachey's]] [[Checkers]] program in [[Python]] <ref>[http://norvig.com/sciam/checkers-complete.html Complete Annotated Strachey Checkers Program] by [[Peter Norvig]]</ref> <ref>[https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/systems-analysis-look-back-1966-scientific-american-article/ Prescient but Not Perfect: A Look Back at a 1966 Scientific American Article on Systems Analysis] by [[Peter Norvig]], [[Scientific American|Scientific American Online]], August 23, 2011</ref>, which was originally written in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_%28programming_language%29 CPL], as published 1966 in [[Scientific American]] <ref>[[Christopher Strachey]] ('''1966'''). ''[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/system-analysis-and-programming-christopher-strachey/ System Analysis and Programming]''. [[Scientific American]], September 1966, republished August 23, 2011</ref>.
=Online Education=
In 2011, along with [[Sebastian Thrun]], Peter Norvig co-teached an online [[Artificial Intelligence#UdacityAICourse|AI class]] initially through [[Stanford University]], for which 160,000 students registered and 23,000 completed <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/05/desktop-degree-stanford-university-naughton Welcome to the desktop degree…] by [http://www.theguardian.com/profile/johnnaughton John Naughton], February 05, 2012, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian The Guardian]</ref>.
As an outgrowth of free computer science classes, Thrun founded the for-profit educational organization [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity Udacity] <ref>[https://www.udacity.com/ Advance Your Career Through Project-Based Online Classes - Udacity]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/n/Norvig:Peter dblp: Peter Norvig]</ref>
==1983 ...==
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''1983'''). ''[http://norvig.com/aaai83.html Six Problems for Story Understanders]''. [[AAAI|AAAI 1983]]
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''1986'''). ''A Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding''. Ph. D. thesis, [[University of California, Berkeley]], advisor [[Mathematician#RWilensky|Robert Wilensky]]
==1990 ...==
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''1992'''). ''[http://norvig.com/paip.html Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Kaufmann_Publishers Morgan Kaufmann]
* [[Stuart Russell]], [[Peter Norvig]] ('''1994'''). ''A Modern, Agent-Oriented Approach to AI Instruction.'' Proceedings of the [[AAAI]] Fall Symposium on Innovative Instruction for Introductory AI, [https://www.academia.edu/160819/A_Modern_Agent-Oriented_Approach_to_AI_Instruction pdf]
* [[Stuart Russell]], [[Peter Norvig]] ('''1995'''). ''Artificial intelligence - a modern approach: the intelligent agent book''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prentice_Hall Prentice Hall]
==2000 ...==
* [[Stuart Russell]], [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2003'''). ''[http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/2nd-ed/ Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prentice_Hall Prentice Hall], 2nd edition
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alon_Halevy Alon Halevy], [[Peter Norvig]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Pereira:Fernando Fernando Pereira] ('''2009'''). ''The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data''. [[IEEE#Expert|IEEE Intelligent Systems]], [https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/de//pubs/archive/35179.pdf pdf], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvDCzhbjYWs UBC Department of Computer Science's Distinguished Lecture Series], September 23, 2010, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
* [[Stuart Russell]], [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2009'''). ''[http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_Education Pearson Education], 3rd edition
==2010 ...==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Spector Alfred Spector], [[Peter Norvig]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Petrov:Slav Slav Petrov] ('''2012'''). ''[http://norvig.com/cacm-hybrid.html Google's Hybrid Approach to Research]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 55, No. 7
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2014'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2661744 Machine learning for programming]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/oopsla/splash2014c.html SPLASH (Companion Volume) 2014]
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2015'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2789869 Applying machine learning to programs]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/wikis/opensym2015c.html OpenSym Companion 2015]
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2015'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2735205 Machine Learning for Learning at Scale]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/lats/lats2015.html L@S 2015]
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2016'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2874818 The Semantic Web and the Semantics of the Web: Where Does Meaning Come From?]'' [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/www/www2016.html WWW2016] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web Semantic Web from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Mathematician#MLooks|Moshe Looks]], [https://dblp.org/pers/hd/h/Herreshoff:Marcello Marcello Herreshoff], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C6CJkqcAAAAJ&hl=en DeLesley Hutchins], [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2017'''). ''Deep Learning with Dynamic Computation Graphs''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02181 arXiv:1702.02181]
=External Links=
* [http://norvig.com/ Peter Norvig]
* [https://ai.google/research/people/author205 Peter Norvig - Research at Google]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/pnorvig Peter Norvig | LinkedIn]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norvig Peter Norvig from Wikipedia]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=80131 Peter Norvig - The Mathematics Genealogy Project]
* [https://www.udacity.com/course/cs271 Intro to Artificial Intelligence Course and Training Online - Udacity] by [[Peter Norvig]] and [[Sebastian Thrun]]
* [[Peter Norvig]]: The 100,000-student classroom, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYclUdcsdeo|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
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'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
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[[FILE:Peter Norvig speaking at University of California, Berkeley.jpg|border|right|thumb| Peter Norvig <ref>Peter Norvig speaking at [[University of California, Berkeley]], October 02, 2013, Photo by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dcoetzee Derrick Coetzee], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norvig Peter Norvig from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Peter Norvig''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] researcher, software developer and director of research at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google Google Inc.] <ref>[http://norvig.com/ Peter Norvig]</ref>.
He received a Ph.D. in CS from [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1986 on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing natural language processing] <ref>[[Peter Norvig]] ('''1986'''). ''A Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding''. Ph. D. thesis, [[University of California, Berkeley]], advisor [[Mathematician#RWilensky|Robert Wilensky]]</ref>,
has been an assistant professor at the [[University of Southern California]] and a research faculty member at Berkeley, and was further affiliated with [[Stanford University]], [[Sun Microsystems]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin_%28software_company%29 Harlequin], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junglee.com Junglee] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA NASA] <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/pnorvig Peter Norvig | LinkedIn]</ref> , where his division developed the remote agent experiment that flew on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_1 Deep Space 1] spacecraft. He is a fellow of the [[AAAI]], [[ACM]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Academy_of_Sciences California Academy of Science] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences] <ref>[http://norvig.com/bio.html Peter Norvig Bio]</ref>.
=Strachey's Checkers Program=
In 2011, Peter Norvig re-published a corrected annotated version of [[Christopher Strachey|Christopher Strachey's]] [[Checkers]] program in [[Python]] <ref>[http://norvig.com/sciam/checkers-complete.html Complete Annotated Strachey Checkers Program] by [[Peter Norvig]]</ref> <ref>[https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/systems-analysis-look-back-1966-scientific-american-article/ Prescient but Not Perfect: A Look Back at a 1966 Scientific American Article on Systems Analysis] by [[Peter Norvig]], [[Scientific American|Scientific American Online]], August 23, 2011</ref>, which was originally written in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_%28programming_language%29 CPL], as published 1966 in [[Scientific American]] <ref>[[Christopher Strachey]] ('''1966'''). ''[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/system-analysis-and-programming-christopher-strachey/ System Analysis and Programming]''. [[Scientific American]], September 1966, republished August 23, 2011</ref>.
=Online Education=
In 2011, along with [[Sebastian Thrun]], Peter Norvig co-teached an online [[Artificial Intelligence#UdacityAICourse|AI class]] initially through [[Stanford University]], for which 160,000 students registered and 23,000 completed <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/05/desktop-degree-stanford-university-naughton Welcome to the desktop degree…] by [http://www.theguardian.com/profile/johnnaughton John Naughton], February 05, 2012, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian The Guardian]</ref>.
As an outgrowth of free computer science classes, Thrun founded the for-profit educational organization [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity Udacity] <ref>[https://www.udacity.com/ Advance Your Career Through Project-Based Online Classes - Udacity]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/n/Norvig:Peter dblp: Peter Norvig]</ref>
==1983 ...==
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''1983'''). ''[http://norvig.com/aaai83.html Six Problems for Story Understanders]''. [[AAAI|AAAI 1983]]
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''1986'''). ''A Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding''. Ph. D. thesis, [[University of California, Berkeley]], advisor [[Mathematician#RWilensky|Robert Wilensky]]
==1990 ...==
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''1992'''). ''[http://norvig.com/paip.html Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Kaufmann_Publishers Morgan Kaufmann]
* [[Stuart Russell]], [[Peter Norvig]] ('''1994'''). ''A Modern, Agent-Oriented Approach to AI Instruction.'' Proceedings of the [[AAAI]] Fall Symposium on Innovative Instruction for Introductory AI, [https://www.academia.edu/160819/A_Modern_Agent-Oriented_Approach_to_AI_Instruction pdf]
* [[Stuart Russell]], [[Peter Norvig]] ('''1995'''). ''Artificial intelligence - a modern approach: the intelligent agent book''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prentice_Hall Prentice Hall]
==2000 ...==
* [[Stuart Russell]], [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2003'''). ''[http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/2nd-ed/ Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prentice_Hall Prentice Hall], 2nd edition
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alon_Halevy Alon Halevy], [[Peter Norvig]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Pereira:Fernando Fernando Pereira] ('''2009'''). ''The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data''. [[IEEE#Expert|IEEE Intelligent Systems]], [https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/de//pubs/archive/35179.pdf pdf], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvDCzhbjYWs UBC Department of Computer Science's Distinguished Lecture Series], September 23, 2010, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
* [[Stuart Russell]], [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2009'''). ''[http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_Education Pearson Education], 3rd edition
==2010 ...==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Spector Alfred Spector], [[Peter Norvig]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Petrov:Slav Slav Petrov] ('''2012'''). ''[http://norvig.com/cacm-hybrid.html Google's Hybrid Approach to Research]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 55, No. 7
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2014'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2661744 Machine learning for programming]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/oopsla/splash2014c.html SPLASH (Companion Volume) 2014]
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2015'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2789869 Applying machine learning to programs]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/wikis/opensym2015c.html OpenSym Companion 2015]
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2015'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2735205 Machine Learning for Learning at Scale]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/lats/lats2015.html L@S 2015]
* [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2016'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2874818 The Semantic Web and the Semantics of the Web: Where Does Meaning Come From?]'' [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/www/www2016.html WWW2016] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web Semantic Web from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Mathematician#MLooks|Moshe Looks]], [https://dblp.org/pers/hd/h/Herreshoff:Marcello Marcello Herreshoff], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C6CJkqcAAAAJ&hl=en DeLesley Hutchins], [[Peter Norvig]] ('''2017'''). ''Deep Learning with Dynamic Computation Graphs''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02181 arXiv:1702.02181]
=External Links=
* [http://norvig.com/ Peter Norvig]
* [https://ai.google/research/people/author205 Peter Norvig - Research at Google]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/pnorvig Peter Norvig | LinkedIn]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norvig Peter Norvig from Wikipedia]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=80131 Peter Norvig - The Mathematics Genealogy Project]
* [https://www.udacity.com/course/cs271 Intro to Artificial Intelligence Course and Training Online - Udacity] by [[Peter Norvig]] and [[Sebastian Thrun]]
* [[Peter Norvig]]: The 100,000-student classroom, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYclUdcsdeo|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
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'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Researcher|Norvig]]
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