Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft
Passionate about harnessing computing advances to enhance the quality of peoples' lives. Long-term pursuit of principles and applications of AI, including efforts to harness computing frontiers to advance health and welfare, bioscience, and sustainability. Research foci include methods leveraging the complementarity of human and machine reasoning and for enhancing the robustness of AI in the open world. Before taking on role as Microsoft's CSO, served as director at Microsoft Research, including our labs at Redmond, New York, New England, Montreal, Bangalore, and Cambridge UK.
Outside of Microsoft, serving on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academies. Enjoy collaborating, advising, and mentoring in my roles as Distinguished Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and as an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington's School of Medicine and Computer Science and Engineering Department.
Publications Selected publications Resources for the general reader
Recent
Fast-paced Q & A "On the DL" with Pieter Abbeel
Talk: AI Challenges, Advances, and Responsibilities (APS)
A Leap Forward in Bioscience
Talk: On Complementing Human Intellect, Stanford HAI 2021 spring meeting
Testimony to Senate: AI and Cybersecurity (pdf)
Advancing AI Trustworthiness
A Milestone Reached
Learning together: Turing Academic Program
Podcast: Microsoft partners with UW Institute for Protein Design
Aiming Advances in AI at Biomedical Search Search now
A Promising Step Forward on Disinformation
National Security Commission on AI; Chapters on Trustworthy AI, Civil Liberties, Key Considerations; NSCAI podcast
Studies in Pandemic Preparedness
One Hundred Year Study on AI, Framing memo
AI Index 2021
horvitz@microsoft.com @erichorvitz One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052