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Peter Norvig (born December 14, 1956) is an American computer scientist. He is a Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc.
He is a Fellow and Councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the leading college text in the field . He previously was head of the Computational Sciences Division (now the Intelligent Systems 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, neuroengineering, 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 services; Chief designer at Harlequin Inc.; and Senior Scientist at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
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Learn to Design Computer Programs with Peter Norvig!
Winning at programming competitions is a negative factor for being good on the job
May 23, 2016 Peter Norvig, Director of Research for Google, on developing state-of-the-art AI solutions for building tomorrow's intelligent systems.
Silicon Valley Deep Learning Group is honored to host Peter Norvig. Peter talks about Deep Learning and Understandability versus Software Engineering and Verification. Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Google's core search algorithms group, and of NASA Ames's Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA's 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 publication...
http://www.ted.com In the fall of 2011 Peter Norvig taught a class with Sebastian Thrun on artificial intelligence at Stanford attended by 175 students in situ -- and over 100,000 via an interactive webcast. He shares what he learned about teaching to a global classroom. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of myst...
How Billions of Trivial Data Points can Lead to Understanding Peter Norvig (Director of Research, Google) presents as part of the UBC Department of Computer Science's Distinguished Lecture Series, September 23, 2010. In decades past, models of human language were wrought from the sweat and pencils of linguists. In the modern day, it is more common to think of language modeling as an exercise in probabilistic inference from data: we observe how words and combinations of words are used, and from that build computer models of what the phrases mean. This approach is hopeless with a small amount of data, but somewhere in the range of millions or billions of examples, we pass a threshold, and the hopeless suddenly becomes effective, and computer models sometimes meet or exceed human perfor...
Peter Norvig answers the top questions from reddit.com. See questions: http://bit.ly/9Hb3A5 Peter Norvig is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google. He is also the author with Stuart Russell of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - 3rd Edition. Opening music taken from "Plume" by Silence http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/silence Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States
Vienna Gödel Lecture 2015 with Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google Inc. (talk starts at 10:56) http://norvig.com http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/english/vienna-goedel-lectures/2015
Information and subscription on http://www.usievents.com Director of Research at Google Inc., Peter Norvig is a reference in terms of Machine Learning. He’s always looking at the world to re-build it, playing with programs and applications that nowadays have a dominant role in our world. “The world is made of lines” and we can draw anything with it, manually or numerically. Peter Norvig’s talk is about Deploying machine learning applications in the Enterprise. More companies are taking advantage of the opportunity to harness large amounts of data to make more accurate predictions, and sometimes to invent entire new classes of applications that couldn't be done before. In this talk, Peter Norvig uses the exemple of Google’s photo reconnaissance or its Automatic spell-checker. “21 lines o...
The key to progressing from a novice programmer to an expert is mindful practice. In this class you will practice going from a problem description to a solution, using a series of assignments. With each problem you will learn new concepts, patterns, and methods that will expand your ability and help move you along the path from novice towards expertise. http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs212
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/programming-competitions-work-performance Peter Norvig says that being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job at Google.
A discussion of artificial intelligence with a leading expert in the field. Peter Norvig is Director of Research at Google, co-author of the leading college textbook in A.I., co-creator of an online course in A.I. that drew 160,000 students, and winner of the Exceptional Achievement Medal from NASA Ames Research Center. Discussion includes basics of A.I., what A.I. can and cannot do, and some current A.I. projects at Google, such as self driving cars and computerized eyeglasses.
The world is filled with things that most of us are able to understand and react to without much thought… a stop sign partially covered by snow is still a stop sign… a chair that’s five times bigger than usual, is still a place to sit. But for computers, the world is often messy and complicated. Google engineers and researchers discuss how machine learning is beginning to make computers, and many of the things we use them for (maps, search, recommending videos, translations), better. http://www.tensorflow.org Google engineers and researcher (in order of appearance): Blaise Aguera Y Arcas, Greg Corrado, John Giannandrea, Peter Norvig, Jeff Dean, Geoffrey Hinton, Anna Patterson. More on Machine Learning at Google : Blog: http://research.google.com/pubs/ArtificialIntelligenceandMachineLea...
Based on nearly eighty hours of conversations with fifteen all-time great programmers and computer scientists, the Q&A; interviews in Coders at Work provide a multifaceted view into how great programmers learn to program, how they practice their craft, and what they think about the future of programming. Google's own Peter Norvig, Brad Fitzpatrick, Josh Block, Ken Thompson, Brendan Eiche are all featured in Coders at Work. Peter Seibel visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss "Coders at Work" as part of the Authors@Google series.
Building reliable, robust software is hard. It is even harder when we move from deterministic domains (such as balancing a checkbook) to uncertain domains (such as recognizing speech or objects in an image). The field of machine learning allows us to use data to build systems in these uncertain domains, but the field mostly concentrates on accuracy of results. Peter Norvig looks at techniques for achieving reliability (and some of the other -ilities). Follow @OReillyAI on Twitter for news and updates about artificial intelligence.
Keynote speech by Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, at the 2007 Association for Learning Technology Conference in Nottingham, UK. A full transcript and slides are available from https://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/ [This video has been captured from Elluminate Live! and consequently the video quality isn't great but we hope this doesn't detract from your enjoyment]
Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, offers a clever way for any of us to create a good spell checker with nothing more than a few lines of code and some text data. Code and walkthrough: http://amunategui.github.io/peter_norvig_magic_spell_checker
Keynote speaker: Peter Norvig, director of research, Google http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/2016commencement Peter Norvig is director of research at Google, Inc. Previously he was head of Google’s core search algorithms group, and of NASA Ames’s Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA’s 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, 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 Intelligen...
Silicon Valley Deep Learning Group is proud to host Peter Norvig. Peter talks about Deep Learning and Understandability versus Software Engineering and Verification. Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Google's core search algorithms group, and of NASA Ames's Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA's 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 ...
Peter Norvig May 14, 2008 The Internet gives us access to billions of pages of information, along with billions of pictures and hundreds of millions of videos. Of course, a person could never look at all of them, but computers are faster than humans: what can a computer learn from all this information? A computer might not learn in the same way that a person does, but it can use massive amounts of data to perform selected tasks very well. It can correct spelling mistakes, translate from Arabic to English, and recognize celebrity faces about as well as an average human—and can do it all by learning from examples rather than by relying on programming.
This is a conversation with Tom Munnecke with Peter Norvig, director of research at Google at the 2009 Good Ancestors Principle workshop in Encinitas, Ca. http://www.upliftacademy.org/wiki/index.php?title=GAP2009
Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, talks about how we have known that learning works best with a one-on-one tutor who encourages the student to keep working until mastery is achieved. We can't afford, or find, enough excellent human tutors, so the question is whether there are technologies that are ready to handle the job, and whether anything is different now than in decades past. We will review the state of the art in online teaching, and where the practice may be heading. Peter Norvig 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 memb...