Fireside Chat with Peter Norvig

Fireside Chat with Peter Norvig and Eric Horvitz.

发言人详细信息

Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow Director, MSR Labs & AI

Eric Horvitz is a technical fellow and director at Microsoft Research. He has made contributions in areas of machine learning, perception, natural language understanding, decision making, and human-AI collaboration. His efforts and collaborations have led to fielded systems in healthcare, transportation, ecommerce, operating systems, and aerospace. He received the Feigenbaum Prize and the Allen Newell Prize for contributions to AI. He has been elected fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) , Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as president of the AAAI, and on advisory committees for the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, DARPA, and the Allen Institute for AI. Beyond technical work, he has pursued efforts and studies on the influences of AI on people and society, including issues around ethics, law, and safety. He established the One Hundred Year Study on AI and served as a founder and co-chair of the Partnership on AI to Support People and Society. Eric received PhD and MD degrees at Stanford University. More information can be found on his home page.

Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google

Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Googles core search algorithms group, and of NASA Amess Computational Sciences Division, making him NASAs senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He was co-teacher of an Artifical Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. His publications include the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), 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 worlds longest palindromic sentence. He is a fellow of the AAAI, ACM, California Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts and Science.

专题：
MSR AI Distinguished Lectures and Fireside Chats
日期：
演讲者：
Eric Horvitz, Peter Norvig
所属机构：
Microsoft Research, Google

系列： MSR AI Distinguished Lectures and Fireside Chats