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Peter Norvig
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AIDistinguished Education Fellow
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🇺🇸 AmericanBorn 1956
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.
Career & education
Current rolesStanford Institute for Human-Centered AI2021-presentDistinguished Education FellowRecursive2026-presentResearcher
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI2021-presentRecursive2026-presentEducation
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations117,954As of Nov 1, '26
citations+2,649Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
With Stuart RussellA textbook covering AI's core ideas, from search and reasoning to learning and robotics.
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