Stuart Russell,was born in 1962 in Portsmouth,England.He received his B.A.with first-class hon-ours in physics from Oxford Undiversity in 1982,and his Ph,D.in computer science from Stanford in 1986.He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley,where he is a professor of computer science,director of the Center for Intelligent Systems,and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering.In 1990,he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation,and in 1995 he was cowinner of the Computers and Thought Award.He was a 1996Miller Professor of the University of California and was appointed to a Chancellor s Professor ship in 2000.In 1998,he gave the Forsythe Memorial Lectures at Stanford University He is a Fellow and former Executive Council member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.He has published over 100 papers on a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence.His other books include The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction and (with Eric Wefald)Do the Right Thing:Studies in Limited Rationality.