Peter Norvig
American computer scientist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1956 · age 69
Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist and Distinguished Education Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. He previously served as a director of research and search quality at Google.
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, Real cognitive science, however, is necessarily based on experimental investigation of actual humans or animals.
I often end up rewriting. Sometimes I do that without ever finding the bug. I get to the point where I can just feel that it’s in this part here.
In Lisp, if you want to do aspect-oriented programming, you just do a bunch of macros and you're there.
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Norvig is the co-author with Stuart J. Russell of the most popular textbook in the field of AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries.
