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Peter Norvig

Founder

Founder (Stanford instructor who started Udacity) at Udacity

Palo Alto, California, United States

FoundedUdacity

About

He spent more than two decades as an engineering director at Google and previously headed the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames, following roles as chief scientist at Junglee, chief designer at Harlequin Software, and senior research scientist at Sun Microsystems. He is an education fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and a researcher at Recursive, and has taught as a visiting lecturer at Stanford.

Founder (Stanford instructor who started Udacity) at Udacity

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Udacity's investors · 8

Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checksCrimson Investment FundDelawareCRV (Charles River Ventures)San Francisco · $250K – $5M checksDrive CapitalColumbus · $5M – $30M checksInvestXVancouverValor Capital GroupNew York · $100K – $5M checksVCFA GroupNew York · $150K – $2.5M checksVershina CapitalNicosia

Co-founders at Udacity

STSebastian Thrun
Sebastian ThrunFounder (Stanford instructor who started Udacity)

Experience

  1. RecursiveResearchercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)Education Fellowcurrent2021 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
  3. GoogleEngineering Director2001 — 2026
  4. Stanford UniversityVisiting Lecturer2010 — 2012Stanford, CA
  5. NASA AmesHead, Computational Sciences Division1998 — 2001
  6. JungleeChief Scientist1996 — 1998
  7. Harlequin SoftwareChief Designer1994 — 1996
  8. Sun MicrosystemsSenior Research Scientist1991 — 1994
  9. Stanford UniversityResearch Scientist1991

Education

  1. University of California, BerkeleyPh.D., Computer Science1980 — 1985
  2. Brown UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics1974 — 1978

Skills & more

Amazon EC220Machine Learning99Artificial Intelligence99Programming89Text Mining28Object Oriented Design12Big Data48Natural Language Processing99Pattern Recognition30Information Extraction16Lisp21Data Mining42
+12 moreInformation RetrievalSystem ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentOOPHigh Performance ComputingComputer ScienceScalabilityNeural NetworksLinuxOpen SourceUnixPython

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