Daniel M. Russell

Personal bio
Dr. Daniel M. Russell has been working in Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction for nearly 40 years. He has worked at several of the top technology invention companies in Silicon Valley (Google, Apple, Xerox, IBM) and has been at the forefront of many of their innovations. He currently teaches in the Human-AI group at Stanford's Computer Science department, and was in the core search engineering team at Google for over 17 years. He has written over 200 technical articles for professional journals as well many articles for the popular press. His most recent book, The Joy of Search: A Google Insider’s Guide to Going Beyond the Basics, is now out in paperback. He has taught over 1,000 classes in-person in venues ranging from 4th grade classes to professional classes for reference librarians at the Library of Congress. He has been on the faculty at Stanford, the University of Maryland, the University of Zurich and serves on multiple boards of information schools. His online classes have been watched by millions of students for an accumulated watch-time of > 450 years. Dan now teaches human-computer interaction and AI at Stanford and the University of Zurich.

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