Stuart J. Russell

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.

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

Occupation

computer scientist / engineer / university teacher / artificial intelligence researcher / academic

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

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB

Tags

• computer scientist
• engineer
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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