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Stuart Jonathan Russell is a British computer scientist, born in 1962, known for his contributions to artificial intelligence. He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering there.
Stuart Russell co-wrote Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach with Peter Norvig. The book is used in more than 1,500 universities across 135 countries.
Stuart Russell completed his PhD in computer science at Stanford University in 1986. His research covered inductive reasoning and analogical reasoning, supervised by Michael Genesereth.
Stuart Russell founded the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, known as CHAI, at UC Berkeley in 2016. Its co-principal investigators included Pieter Abbeel, Anca Dragan, and Tom Griffiths, among others.
In a January 2025 Newsweek article, Stuart Russell wrote that the AGI race is 'a race towards the edge of a cliff.'
Stuart Russell won the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1995 and the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in 2022, becoming only the second person, after Hector Levesque, to win both. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 Birthday Honours, and in 2025 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.