Stuart J. Russell Created 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Stuart J. Russell is a computer scientist whose work concerns artificial intelligence and the design of systems that choose actions from available information. With Peter Norvig, he wrote Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. Its agent perspective connects search algorithms, first-order logic, probabilistic reasoning, decision theory and machine learning.[ref]
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. Author byline and chapters 2–22 in the fourth-edition contents
His research and lectures also examine uncertainty about an intelligent system's objectives. That question differs from uncertainty about its observations: even a system that predicts its environment accurately can need information about what outcome its user wants.[ref]
Stuart Russell's Berkeley research profile. Research areas; Uncertainty in Objectives and Human Compatible links
