FW: PARC Forum Today: "Web Search as a Product of and Catalyst for AI", Peter Norvig, Google

[Randy Burge]

Of possible interest TODAY (Thursday, 10/5/06) for Bay Area FRIAMers:

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Randy

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> Conversation: PARC Forum Today: "Web Search as a Product of and Catalyst for
> AI", Peter Norvig, Google
> Subject: PARC Forum Today: "Web Search as a Product of and Catalyst for AI",
> Peter Norvig, Google
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> PARC OPEN FORUM
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> Thursday, October 5
> 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
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> Title:  Web Search as a Product of and Catalyst for AI
>       Peter Norvig, Google
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> Abstract:
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> Over the last decade, web search has grown to be the largest AI-related
> industry in history, far surpassing the minor booms for Lisp Machines, Expert
> Systems, and other technologies. This talk reviews AI technologies behind the
> Web Search industry, and shows how large text corpora and associated
> computational power are enabling new AI applications.
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> ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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> Peter Norvig is the Director of Research at Google Inc
> <http://www.google.com/> , where he has been since 2001. From 2002-2005 he was
> Director of Search Quality, which means he was the manager of record
> responsible for answering more queries than anyone else in the history of the
> world. He is a Fellow <http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-current.php> of the
> American Association for Artificial Intelligence <http://www.aaai.org/>  and
> co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
> <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Erussell/aima.html> , the leading textbook in
> the field (with 94% market share).
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> Previously he was the head of the Computational Sciences Division
> <http://www.ic.arc.nasa.gov/> at NASA Ames Research Center, making him NASA's
> senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award
> in 2001. He has served as an assistant professor at the University of Southern
> California and a research faculty member at the University of California at
> Berkeley Computer Science Department, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986
> and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He has over fifty publications in
> Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language
> Processing and Software Engineering, including the books Paradigms of AI
> Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp <http://www.norvig.com/paip.html> ,
> Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog
> <http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/0937073954.html> , and Intelligent
> Help Systems for UNIX <http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-6641-7> . He is also
> the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
> <http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg> and the world's longest palindromic
> sentence <http://www.norvig.com/palindrome.html> .
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> See http://www.norvig.com/bio.html for more.
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