Stuart Russell -- Biography
Stuart Russell is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of
California at Berkeley, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in
Engineering, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI and
the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public. He is a mmeber
of the National Academy of Engineering, a recipient of the IJCAI
Computers and Thought Award, the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, and
the ACM Allen Newell Award, and former holder of the Chaire Blaise
Pascal in Paris. In 2021 he received the OBE from Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth and gave the BBC Reith Lectures. He is an Honorary Fellow of
Wadham College, Oxford, and a Fellow of AAAI, ACM, and AAAS. His book
"Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig) is
the standard text in AI, used in over 1500 universities in 135
countries. His current work focuses on the long-term future of
artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. He has
developed a new global seismic monitoring system for the
nuclear-test-ban treaty and is working to ban lethal
autonomous weapons.