Eric Horvitz

Eric Horvitz, Ph.D., M.D., is a computer scientist and a leading researcher in artificial intelligence (AI) and issues at the intersection of technology, people, and society – including the technical and societal challenges and opportunities presented by AI’s uses. He has made influential contributions with developing and fielding frontier technologies in biomedicine, transportation, aerospace, and computing systems and services, and he has been awarded the Feigenbaum Prize and the Allen Newell Award for advances in AI. He is Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft, where he previously led Microsoft Research.