Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is one of those quiet architects whose influence vastly outsizes his public profile. Co-authoring Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the textbook that trained generations of researchers, would be enough for a career, yet he also led research at Google and later turned to education at Stanford. What I admire is the rare balance he strikes between deep theory and pragmatic engineering, the Berkeley-trained scientist who can both prove an idea and ship it. In a field now dominated by hype, I find his measured, teacherly approach refreshing. People like Norvig build the foundations everyone else stands on, often without the spotlight.

Name (English)

Peter Norvig

Name (Japanese)

ピーター・ノーヴィグ

Reading

ぴーたー・のーゔぃぐ

Born

December 5, 1956 (age 69)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Monkey

Occupation

computer scientist / artificial intelligence researcher / mathematician

University

University of California, Berkeley

Awards & achievements

• 2001 AAAI Fellow
• 2006 ACM Fellow

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.norvig.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B0

Tags

• computer scientist
• artificial intelligence researcher
• mathematician

Last updated

2026-06-02

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