As We May Program

  • Peter Norvig | Google

Innovations in machine learning are changing our perception of what is possible to do with a computer. But how will machine learning change the way we program, the tools we use, and the mix of tasks done by expert programmers, novice programmers, and non-programmers? This talk examines some possible futures.

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Speaker Details

Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Googles core search algorithms group, and of NASA Amess Computational Sciences Division, making him NASAs senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He was co-teacher of an Artifical Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. His publications include the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the worlds longest palindromic sentence. He is a fellow of the AAAI, ACM, California Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts and Science.

Series: MSR AI Distinguished Lectures and Fireside Chats