People like famed physicist Stephen Hawking and Tesla's Elon Musk have issued dark warnings of a world where computers become so sophisticated, so quickly, that humanity loses control of them—and its ...

The Seventh Annual Boole Lecture will take place in University College Cork (UCC) on December 15th, this year’s public lecture will be given by Dr Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google.

In the spirit of sharing interesting items that we stumble across, here is a video of a lecture delivered by Peter Norvig as the latest Microsoft Research Distinguished Lectures Series. Peter Norvig ...

Peter Norvig has been at Google for a long time now -- he was, until recently, the Directory of Search Quality; the guy who made sure every time you submitted a query, you usually got what you wanted.

Peter Norvig, a 20-year Google vet, Google R&D director and former director of search quality at Google, is scaling back from his Google work to join Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute as a ...

We hear a lot about the great MOOC experiment where 160,000 students signed up for an advanced course on AI from front man Sebastian Thrun but not so much from Peter Norvig - the "other" lecturer ...

Google Director of Research and renowned artificial intelligence (AI) expert Peter Norvig, presented an entirely different side of AI and machine learning at the EmTech Digital conference. He compared ...

SAN FRANCISCO–Google’s influence on the Web can be likened to game theory, said Google Director of Research Peter Norvig. Very simply defined, game theory applied to economics is a study of the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) got a lot of press in 2016, not least because of the victory of Google’s AI program over Lee Sedol, the world’s best Go player. That triumph of machine over human elicited ...

When Peter Norvig ’78 P’16 P'18, director of research at Google, enrolled at Brown, he knew almost nothing about computer science — a nascent field in which classes had just begun to be offered and ...