Eric Horvitz

Eric Horvitz
Born
Eric Joel Horvitz
NationalityAmerican
EducationPh.D and M.D. from Stanford University
OccupationComputer scientist
EmployerMicrosoft
TitleChief Scientific Officer

Eric Joel Horvitz (/ˈhɔːrvɪts/) is an American computer scientist, and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where he serves as the company's first Chief Scientific Officer.[1] He was previously the director of Microsoft Research Labs, including research centers in Redmond, WA, Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, Montreal, Canada, Cambridge, UK, and Bangalore, India.

Horvitz was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for computational mechanisms for decision making under uncertainty and with bounded resources.

  1. ^ Bonifacic, Igor (11 March 2020). "Microsoft appoints its first-ever chief scientific officer". Engadget. Retrieved 27 March 2020.