Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. At Google Inc. he was the director of search quality, responsible for the core web search algorithms from 2002 to 2005, and has been director of research since 2005.

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. He has served as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California and a research faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley Computer Science Department, from which he received a PhD 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.

Work Experience

• Director of Research, Google
• Division Chief, Computational Sciences, NASA Ames Research Center
• Research Faculty Member, UC Berkeley
• Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

Education

• PhD, Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 1985
• BS, Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1978

Awards, Honors, and Significant Achievements

• Berkeley Engineering Innovation Awards lifetime achievement award, 2008
• Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, 2006
• Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science, UC Berkeley EECS Department, 2006
• Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2001
• NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, 2001

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