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“One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.”

Quote by Peter Norvig

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Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is an accomplished computer scientist renowned for his contributions to the fields of natural language processing and artificial intelligence. Born on December 14, 1956, he served as the Director of Research at Google and was a professor of computer science at Stanford University. Norvig's research in artificial intelligence spans a wide range of topics from machine learning to search engine algorithms. more

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