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Peter Norvig

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Distinguished Education Fellow at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AIResearcher at Recursive

🇺🇸 American

Norvig co-wrote Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the field's most widely used textbook, and helped build Google's research and search teams. He also co-taught an online AI course that drew 160,000 registrations and helped establish large-scale online learning.

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Background

Current roles
Distinguished Education Fellow 2021-present
Researcher 2026-present
Previously
2001-2026Engineering Director,
1998-2001Head, Computational Sciences Division,
Born1956
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 7, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26113,968104,53395,098Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26Jul 1, '26Sep 1, '26
113,968citations as of Sep 1, '26+3,731 since Aug 1, '26
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