Peter Norvig

Current

• Engineering Director at Google

Past

• Division Chief, Computational Sciences at NASA
• Head, Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames
• Chief Scientist at Junglee

• Chief Designer at Harlequin Software
• Senior Research Scientist at Sun Microsystems
• Research Scientist at Stanford University

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley
• Brown University

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Peter Norvig’s Summary

Programmer, designer, author, and manager in high tech R&D.

Peter Norvig’s Specialties:

internet search, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, programming, education

Peter Norvig’s Experience

• Engineering Director

  Google

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GOOG; Computer Software industry)

  May 2001 — Present (8 years 3 months)

  R&D for improvements in search technology.

• Division Chief, Computational Sciences

  NASA

  (Computer Software industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

• Head, Computational Sciences Division

  NASA Ames

  (Computer Software industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

• Chief Scientist

  Junglee

  (Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years)

• Chief Designer

  Harlequin Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years)

• Senior Research Scientist

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1991 — 1994 (3 years)

• Research Scientist

  Stanford University

  (Computer Software industry)

  1991 — 1991 (less than a year)

Peter Norvig’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  Ph.D. , Computer Science , 1980 — 1985

• Brown University

  B.S. , Applied Mathematics , 1974 — 1978

Additional Information

Peter Norvig’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Peter Norvig’s Groups:

•    Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards
•    Junglee Alumni
•    Ultimate SF Bay Area
•    Singularity University

Peter Norvig’s Honors:

ACM Fellow; AAAI Fellow; Berkeley CS Distinguished Alum; NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal

Peter Norvig’s Contact Settings

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