Dr. Eric Horvitz

A Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft, where research interests span theoretical and practical challenges with developing systems that perceive, learn, and reason, and his contributions include advances in principles and applications of machine learning and inference, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, bioinformatics, and e-commerce. He played a significant role in establishing the credibility of artificial intelligence and his research helped establish the link between artificial intelligence and decision science. He coined the concept of bounded optimality, a decision-theoretic approach to bounded rationality.