Artificial intelligence: a modern approach (4th ed.)

Stuart Russell, joined the University of California, Berkeley in 1986 as a professor in the Department of Computer Science, where he served as chair of the department, director of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, and as the Smith-Zadeh Chair of Engineering.In 1990, he received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Award for Outstanding Young Scientist; in 1995, was one of the recipients of the Computers and Ideas Award. Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the American Computer Society (ACM), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Andrew Carnegie. served as President of Blaise Pascal in Paris from 2012 to 2014. He has published more than 300 papers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, covering a wide range of topics.

Peter Norvig, formerly director of research and head of core web search algorithms at Google Inc. Has co-teached an online artificial intelligence course with 160,000 student enrollments, helping to kick off the current wave of massive open online courses. Served as head of the Computational Science Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where he was responsible for research and development in artificial intelligence and robotics. Has been a professor at the University of Southern California and a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the American Computer Society, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the California Academy of Sciences.

Both authors jointly received the inaugural 2016 AAAI/EAAI Distinguished Educator Award.