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Two Googlers elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 25, 2013
On Wednesday, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
announced its list of
2013 elected members
. We’re proud to congratulate
Peter Norvig
, director of research, and
Arun Majumdar
, vice president for energy; two Googlers who are among the new members elected this year.
Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is considered one of the nation’s highest honors, with those elected recognized as leaders in the arts, public affairs, business, and academic disciplines. With more than 250 Nobel Prize laureates and 60 Pulitzer Prize winners among its fellows, the American Academy celebrates the exceptional contributions of the elected members to critical social and intellectual issues.
With their election, Peter and Arun join seven other Googlers as American Academy members: Eric Schmidt, Vint Cerf, Alfred Spector, Hal Varian, Ray Kurzweil and founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, all of whom embody our commitment to innovation and real-world impact. You can read more detailed summaries of Peter and Arun’s achievements below.
Dr. Peter Norvig,
currently director of research at Google, is known most for his broad expertise in computer science and artificial intelligence, exemplified by his co-authorship (with Stuart Russell) of the leading college text,
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
. With more than 50 publications and a plethora of webpages, essays and software programs on a wide variety of CS topics, Peter is a catalyst of fundamental research across a wide range of disciplines while remaining a hands-on scientist who writes his own code. Recently, he has taught courses on artificial intelligence and the design of computer programs via massively open online courses (MOOC). Learn more about Peter and his research on
norvig.com
.
Dr. Arun Majumdar
leads Google.org’s energy initiatives and advises Google on its broader energy strategy. Prior to joining Google last year, he was the founding director of the U.S. Department of Energy's
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
, where he served from October 2009 until June 2012. Earlier, he was a professor of mechanical engineering as well as materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and headed the
Environmental Energy Technologies Division
at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has published several hundred papers, patents and conference proceedings. Find out
more about Arun
.
Posted by Alfred Spector, Vice President, Engineering
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