Peter Norvig, a 20-year Google vet, Google R&D director and former director of search quality at Google, is scaling back from his Google work to join Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute as a Distinguished Education Fellow.

I wrote about this news the other day on Search Engine Land and explained there that he is still affiliated with Google but will be spending most of his time at Stanford going forward.

The announcement came from Stanford that wrote:

There is a whole interview with him that you can check out there.

Peter Norvig has been with Google for a long long time – I guess he wants to do something new at this stage in his life. It is interesting he is not dropping his affiliation with Google.

Forum discussion at Twitter.