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