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Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley
March 11, 2020 11am – 1pm
UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom
Stuart Russell received his B.A. in physics from Oxford University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of UC Berkeley, where he is Professor (and formerly Chair) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the founding Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI. He is the recipient of many honors, including the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the Mitchell Prize of the American Statistical Association, the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize, Outstanding Educator Awards from both ACM and AAAI, the Chaire Blaise Pascal (2012-2014), and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2019-2021). He is also an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House). His movie “Slaughterbots” received the coveted Golden Dolphin award at Cannes in the viral category.
Stuart’s book “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach” (with Peter Norvig) is well known in AI; it has been translated into 14 languages and is used in over 1450 universities in 128 countries. His research covers almost all subfields of AI, with a focus on probabilistic reasoning and machine learning. His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. The latter topic is the subject of his new book, “Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control “(Viking/Penguin, 2019), as well as this lecture.
