Eric Horvitz | |
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Born | Eric Joel Horvitz |
Nationality | American |
Education | Ph.D and M.D. from Stanford University |
Occupation | Computer scientist |
Employer | Microsoft |
Title | Chief 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.