Stuart Russell is the Smith-Zadeh Professor and the chair of electrical engineering and computer sciences at University of California, Berkeley, a fellow of AAAI and ACM, winner of the Computers and Thought Award and the ACM Outstanding Educator Award, and co-author of Artificial Intelligence:A Modern Approach, the standard text in AI. He is also an adjunct professor of neurosurgery at University of California, San Francisco, and a consultant to the United Nations on the detection of nuclear explosions.