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Peter Norvig

AI and machine learning researcher

An AI researcher and educator who co-authored Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach and led Google research and search teams.

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Books Peter Norvig recommends

4 books, each linked to the source where Peter Norvig recommended it.

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Peter Norvig

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Work-level recommendation in a historical programming-learning essay; no endorsement of later editions or modern Python tooling is implied.

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Peter Norvig · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal programming-reading recommendations

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

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How to Design Programs

by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Peter Norvig

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Work-level recommendation in a historical programming-learning essay; no endorsement of later editions or modern Python tooling is implied.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Peter Norvig · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal programming-reading recommendations

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

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Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science

by John M. Zelle

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Peter Norvig

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Work-level recommendation in a historical programming-learning essay; no endorsement of later editions or modern Python tooling is implied.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Peter Norvig · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal programming-reading recommendations

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Peter Norvig

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Work-level recommendation in a historical programming-learning essay; no endorsement of later editions or modern Python tooling is implied.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Peter Norvig · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal programming-reading recommendations

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

Audible

Books by Peter Norvig

Written by Peter Norvig. Not counted as recommendations.

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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming

by Peter Norvig · 1991

Peter Norvig's Common Lisp-centered treatment of classic artificial-intelligence programming techniques.

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