Stuart Russell | |
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Born | Stuart Jonathan Russell 1962 (age 61–62) Portsmouth, England |
Citizenship | British; American |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) Stanford University (PhD) |
Known for | Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial Intelligence[3] |
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Thesis | Analogical and Inductive Reasoning (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Genesereth[4] |
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Website | people |
Stuart Jonathan Russell OBE (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI).[5][3] He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.[6][7] He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.[8] He founded and leads the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at UC Berkeley.[9] Russell is the co-author with Peter Norvig of the authoritative textbook of the field of AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries.[10]