Peter Norvig is currently the Director of Search Quality at Google Inc., with the mission of organizing the world's information to make it universally accessible and useful.

He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the standard college text. He previously was head of the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw a staff of 200 scientists performing NASA's research and development in autonomy and robotics, automated software engineering and data analysis , neuro-engineering , collaborative systems research , and simulation-based decision-making . Before that he was Chief Scientist at Junglee , where he helped develop one of the first Internet comparison shopping service; Chief designer at Harlequin Inc.; and Senior Scientist at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

Dr. Norvig received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D.. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Professor at the University of Southern California and a Research Faculty Member at Berkeley. He has over fifty publications in various areas of Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering including the books ,Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach ,Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX.

Dr. Norvig is most broadly known for his "Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation", a satire over bad presentation practices using Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address.

External links

• Peter Norvig's home page