Stuart Russell -- Biography
Stuart Russell received his B.A. with first-class honours in physics
from Oxford University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from
Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of
California at Berkeley, where he is Professor (and formerly Chair) of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, holder of the
Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Center for
Human-Compatible AI. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of
Neurological Surgery at UC San Francisco and as Vice-Chair of the
World Economic Forum's Council on AI and Robotics. He is a recipient
of the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science
Foundation, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the World
Technology Award (Policy category), the Mitchell Prize of the American
Statistical Association, the Feigenbaum Prize of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and Outstanding Educator Awards from both ACM
and AAAI. From 2012 to 2014 he held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in
Paris. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and Fellow
of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the
Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. His book "Artificial Intelligence: A
Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI; it
has been translated into 13 languages and is used in over 1300
universities in 119 countries. His research covers a wide range of
topics in artificial intelligence including machine learning,
probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time
decision making, multitarget tracking, computer vision, computational
physiology, and philosophical foundations. He also works for the
United Nations, developing a new global seismic monitoring system for
the nuclear-test-ban treaty. His current concerns include the threat
of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial
intelligence and its relation to humanity.