Oren Etzioni, born in 1964, is a retired professor of computer science at the University of Washington. He founded the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) and served as its first chief executive officer. Etzioni also co-founded Vercept, an artificial intelligence company, and founded TrueMedia.org, a non-profit organization that works to stop political deepfakes.
Eric Joel Horvitz is an American computer scientist and a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. He works as the company’s first Chief Scientific Officer. Before this role, he was the director of Microsoft Research Labs, which includes research centers in Redmond, Washington; Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York; Montreal, Canada; Cambridge, United Kingdom; and Bangalore, India.
Roni Horn was born on September 25, 1955. She is an American artist and writer. She is a descendant of immigrants from Eastern Europe and was born in New York City, where she continues to live and work.
Bart Selman is a Dutch-American professor of computer science at Cornell University. He helped start and is a main researcher at the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at the University of California, Berkeley. This center is led by Stuart J.
Satinder Singh was born on February 7, 1987. He is an Indian athlete who competes in the 400-meter hurdle race. He comes from Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
Sham Machandranath Kakade is an American computer scientist. He is a Gordon McKay Professor in Computer Science at Harvard University and also works in the Department of Statistics. He co-founded the Algorithmic Foundations of Data Science Institute.
Michael Lederman Littman was born on August 30, 1966. He is a computer scientist, researcher, teacher, and writer. His work mainly involves a field called reinforcement learning.
Leslie Pack Kaelbling is an American scientist who studies robots. She is the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is well known for using a type of math problem called partially observable Markov decision processes, which were originally developed in operations research, to help improve artificial intelligence and robotics.
Judea Pearl (Hebrew: יהודה פרל; born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American electrical engineer, computer scientist, and philosopher. He is best known for promoting the use of probability in artificial intelligence and for creating Bayesian networks. He also developed a theory to explain cause and effect using structural models.
Peter Norvig was born on December 14, 1956. He is an American computer scientist and a Distinguished Education Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Before his current role, he worked as a director of research and search quality at Google.