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British computer scientist and author (born 1962)

| Stuart Russell<br>[OBE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire "Officer of the Order of the British Empire")[FRS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society "Fellow of the Royal Society") |
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| [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Stuart_Russell_01.jpg/250px-Stuart_Russell_01.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stuart_Russell_01.jpg)<br>Russell in 2019 |
| Born | Stuart Jonathan Russell<br>1962 (age 63–64)<br>[Portsmouth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth "Portsmouth"), England |
| Citizenship | British; American\[ _[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed "Wikipedia:Citation needed")_\] |
| Alma mater | [University of Oxford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford "University of Oxford") (BA)<br>[Stanford University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University "Stanford University") (PhD) |
| Known for | _[Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence:_A_Modern_Approach "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach")_ |
| Awards | - [IJCAI Computers and Thought Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJCAI_Computers_and_Thought_Award "IJCAI Computers and Thought Award") (1995)<br>- [IJCAI Award for Research Excellence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJCAI_Award_for_Research_Excellence "IJCAI Award for Research Excellence") (2022)<br>- [AAAI Fellow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAI_Fellow "AAAI Fellow") (1997)[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell#cite_note-faaai-1)<br>- [ACM Fellow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_Fellow "ACM Fellow") (2003)<br>- [AAAS Fellow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAS_Fellow "AAAS Fellow") (2011)<br>- [Blaise Pascal Chair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal_Chair "Blaise Pascal Chair") (2012)<br>- [Reith Lectures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reith_Lectures "Reith Lectures") (2021)[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell#cite_note-reith-2) |
| **Scientific career** |
| Fields | [Artificial intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence "Artificial intelligence")[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell#cite_note-nature-3) |
| Institutions | - [University of California, Berkeley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley "University of California, Berkeley")<br>- [University of California, San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_San_Francisco "University of California, San Fr

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