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My Take
Stuart Russell is one of those rare scholars whose textbook shaped an entire field before most students even knew his name. Born in Portsmouth, Oxford-educated, and now anchoring AI research at Berkeley, he carries the honors you'd expect, from AAAI and ACM fellowships to the Allen Newell Award. What earns my real respect, though, is his refusal to treat capability as the only goal. He keeps pressing the harder question of how powerful machines should coexist safely with people. In a field that often rushes ahead, having a voice this thoughtful at the very front feels genuinely reassuring.
Overview
Stuart Jonathan Russell (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). 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. He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Stuart J. Russell
- Name (Japanese)
- スチュアート・ラッセル
- Reading
- すちゅあーと・らっせる
- Born
- January 1, 1962 (age 64)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Tiger
- Origin
- Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- computer scientist / engineer / university teacher / artificial intelligence researcher / academic
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Oxford
Awards & achievements
- 1997 AAAI Fellow
- 2003 ACM Fellow
- 1995 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
- 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2019 Carnegie Fellow
- 2022 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.