Stuart J. Russell

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Stuart Russell
OBE
Stuart Russell in 2019
Born
Stuart Jonathan Russell

1962 (age 61–62)
Portsmouth, England
CitizenshipBritish; American
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
Known forArtificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Artificial Intelligence[3]
Institutions
ThesisAnalogical and Inductive Reasoning (1987)
Doctoral advisorMichael Genesereth[4]
Doctoral students
Other notable students
Websitepeople.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/ Edit this at Wikidata

Stuart Jonathan Russell

OBE (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI).[5][3] He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.[6][7] He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.[8] He founded and leads the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at UC Berkeley.[9] Russell is the co-author with Peter Norvig of the authoritative textbook of the field of AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries.[10]

Education and early life

Russell was born in

PhD in computer science at Stanford University in 1986 for research on inductive reasoning and analogical reasoning supervised by Michael Genesereth.[4][11] His PhD was supported by a NATO studentship from the UK Science and Engineering Research Council.[11]

Career and research

After his 1986 PhD, he joined the faculty of the

intensive-care unit monitoring.[6][7] He is also an Honorary Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford.[8]
His research in the area of
Artificial Intelligence (AI)[13] includes contributions to machine learning,[14] probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking, computer vision,[15] and inverse reinforcement learning.[9] He has also been an active participant in the movement to ban the manufacture and use of autonomous weapons.[16][17]

In 2016, he founded the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley, with co-principal investigators Pieter Abbeel, Anca Dragan, Tom Griffiths, Bart Selman, Joseph Halpern, Michael Wellman and Satinder Singh Baveja.[18] Russell has published several hundred conference and journal articles[6][19][20] as well as several books, including The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction and Do the Right Thing: Studies in Limited Rationality (with Eric Wefald).[15][21] Along with Peter Norvig, he is the author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,[22] a textbook used by over 1,500 universities in 135 countries.[23] He is on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Future of Life Institute[24] and the advisory board of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.[25]

In 2017 he collaborated with the Future of Life Institute to produce a video, Slaughterbots, about swarms of drones assassinating political opponents, and presented this to a United Nations meeting about the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.[26][27]

In 2018 he contributed an interview to the documentary Do You Trust This Computer?[28]

His book,

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence themes. His former doctoral students include Marie desJardins, Eric Xing and Shlomo Zilberstein.[4]

Russell gave the 2021 Reith Lectures, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, on Living with Artificial Intelligence[2][30] with lectures on "The Biggest Event in Human History",[31] "AI in warfare",[32] "AI in the economy"[33] and "AI: A Future for Humans".[34]

Awards and honors

Russell was co-winner, in 1995, of the

Agence Nationale de la Recherche.[39]

Russell served as vice chair of the

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to artificial intelligence research.[40]

References

  1. ^ a b "Elected AAAI Fellows". aaai.org.
  2. ^ a b Russell, Stuart (2021). "Living with Artificial Intelligence - BBC Radio 4". bbc.co.uk. BBC.
  3. ^
    PMID 26017428
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  4. ^ a b c d e f Stuart J. Russell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Russell, Stuart J.; Tegmark, Max; Hawking, Stephen; Wilczek, Frank (2014). "Transcending Complacency on Superintelligent Machines". huffingtonpost.com.
  6. ^ a b c Stuart J. Russell publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  7. ^
    ORCID 0000-0001-5252-4306
  8. ^ a b "Stuart Russell". Berkeley EECS. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  9. ^ a b "UC Berkeley launches Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence". Berkeley University of California. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  10. ^ "1542 Schools Worldwide That Have Adopted AIMA". aima.cs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  11. ^
    ProQuest 303637665
    . (subscription required)
  12. ^ "Stuart Russell's Resumé, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley". Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  13. ISSN 0028-0836
    .
  14. ^ Polonski, Vyacheslav (25 May 2018). "Here's Why AI Can't Solve Everything". The Conversation. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  15. ^ a b c "Stuart J. Russell". Berkeley EECS. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  16. ^ Markoff, John (12 May 2016). "Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley for Edge in Artificial Intelligence". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  17. ^ "Ban on killer robots urgently needed, say scientists". The Guardian. 13 November 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  18. ^ "UC Berkeley launches Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence". news.berkeley.edu. 29 August 2016.
  19. ^ Stuart J. Russell at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  20. ^ "Stuart Russell Publications". Berkeley EECS. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  21. ^ "Professor Stuart Russell - The Long-Term Future of (Artificial) Intelligence". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  22. OCLC 1041391921
    .
  23. ^ "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", aima.cs.berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley, 2013, retrieved 6 July 2015
  24. ^ Who We Are, Future of Life Institute, 2014, archived from the original on 7 May 2014, retrieved 7 May 2014
  25. ^ Who We Are, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, 2014, archived from the original on 18 July 2014, retrieved 1 August 2014
  26. ^ Sample, Ian (13 November 2017), "Ban on killer robots urgently needed, say scientists", The Guardian
  27. ^ Anon (14 December 2017), "Military robots are getting smaller and more capable", The Economist
  28. ^ "Meet the experts". doyoutrustthiscomputer.org. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  29. OCLC 1083694322
    .
  30. ^ Murgia, Madhumita (29 November 2021). "AI weapons pose threat to humanity, warns top scientist". Financial Times. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  31. ^ Russell, Stuart (1 December 2021). "The Biggest Event in Human History". bbc.co.uk. London: BBC. I think what's happening in social media is already worse than Chernobyl, it has caused a huge amount of dislocation
  32. ^ Russell, Stuart (8 December 2021). "AI in warfare". bbc.co.uk. London: BBC.
  33. ^ Russell, Stuart (15 December 2021). "AI in the economy". bbc.co.uk. London: BBC.
  34. ^ Russell, Stuart (22 December 2021). "AI: A Future for Humans". bbc.co.uk. London: BBC.
  35. ^ "International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence – Awards". ijcai.org.
  36. ^ "ACM Fellows – ACM Award". acm.org.
  37. ^ "About AAAS". Archived from the original on 13 January 2012.
  38. ^ "Professor Stuart J Russell – Award Winner". acm.org. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012.
  39. ^ Anon (2012). "Programme : " Chaires d'Excellence "" (PDF). agence-nationale-recherche.fr. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2014.
  40. ^ "No. 63377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B25.

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