By Bulletin Staff, July 18, 2019
Technical Fellow, Microsoft; Director, Microsoft Research Labs
Horvitz is a foremost expert on artificial intelligence (AI). His research centers on the uses of AI and its challenges in the open world. He is a recipient of both the Feigenbaum Prize and the Allen Newell Award for his contributions in AI. He chairs Microsoft’s Aether committee on AI, effects, and ethics in engineering and research; established the One Hundred Year Study on AI at Stanford University; and co-founded the Partnership on AI. Horvitz serves on the Bulletin’s Board of Sponsors.
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