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Seriously. These were precisely the first words out of my mouth as well. Worth pointing out that Ray Kurzweil[1] is the director of engineering at google, Pete
by ragle 13y ago
Seriously. These were precisely the first words out of my mouth as well.
Worth pointing out that Ray Kurzweil[1] is the director of engineering at google, Peter Norvig[2] is the director of research, and they recently snatched
up Geoffrey Hinton[3] and several of his grad students.
Not sure if excited or terrified. The future of google is going to be very interesting...
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norvig http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norvig
[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton
- tonfa 13y ago"The director of" is misleading, it is a director (there are at least two higher positions: VP and SVP).
- ragle 13y agoThanks for spotting this and pointing it out. I'll take your word for it about Kurzweil. The wiki also says "a director" - good catch. Here's what google says about Norvig though: http://research.google.com/pubs/author205.html http://research.google.com/pubs/author205.html FWIW, I don't think reporting to higher ups (e.g. VP, SVP) precludes someone from being "the director" if there are no other people in the department with this title / position.
- tonfa 13y agoThere is at least Alfred Spector who is a VP and in charge of research: http://www.theguardian.com/activate/alfred-spector http://www.theguardian.com/activate/alfred-spector But yeah, Norvig is probably a little bit more than "a" director :)