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Eric Horvitz

Also Known As Eric Joel Horvitz
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Eric Horvitz is an American computer scientist and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where he serves as the company's first Chief Scientific Officer. He previously directed Microsoft Research Labs at multiple international locations including Redmond, Cambridge and Bangalore, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for his work on computational decision making under uncertainty and resource constraints; his research spans machine learning, human computer interaction and artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on bounded rationality and decision theory.

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1958 1
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American 2
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1. Eric Horvitz (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Eric Joel Horvitz
    Eric Joel Horvitz
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: AAAI Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): AAAI Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award.
  • Wikidata P166: CHI Academy
    Wikidata P166 (award received): CHI Academy.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1958
    1958
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2. Wikipedia: Eric Horvitz
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is an American computer scientist, and Technical Fellow at Microsoft
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