PARC OPEN FORUM

Title: Web Search as a Product of and Catalyst for AI
Peter Norvig, Google
Thursday, October 5
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Abstract:

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.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Peter Norvig is the Director of Research at Google Inc , 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 of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach , the leading textbook in the field (with 94% market share).

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