--- title: "3 Eric Horvitz Quotes - Famous Computer scientist (Insider's Guide to Innovation at Microsoft)" description: "Eric Joel Horvitz is an American computer scientist, and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where he serves as the company's first Chief Scientific Officer." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eric-horvitz-33501.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Eric Horvitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eric-horvitz-33501.jpg) # Eric Horvitz (1957) Computer Scientist United States **3** quotes in **36** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Eric Horvitz is a computer scientist from the United States, best known for *Insider's Guide to Innovation at Microsoft*. ## Quick Facts About Eric Horvitz Born November 30, 1957 Nationality United States Profession Computer Scientist Notable works Insider's Guide to Innovation at Microsoft ## About Eric Horvitz Eric Joel Horvitz is an American computer scientist, and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where he serves as the company's first Chief Scientific Officer. He was previously the director of Microsoft Research Labs, including research centers in Redmond, WA, Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, Montreal, Canada, Cambridge, UK, and Bangalore, India. ## Awards & Honors CHI Academy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ACM Fellow AAAI Fellow ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ## Quotes by Eric Horvitz > [Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-horvitz/something-new-has-taken-place-in-the-past-five-to-eight-years/) [Eric Horvitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-horvitz/) [Eight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eight/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d6/eric-horvitz-81744_eight_something-new-has-taken-place-in-the-pas_228893.jpg) > [We're defining the competitive landscape... of who can provide the most supportive services that make life easier, keep track of things, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-horvitz/we-re-defining-the-competitive-landscape-of-who-can-provide-the-most/) [Eric Horvitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-horvitz/) [Competitive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/competitive/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b1/eric-horvitz-81744_complement_we-re-defining-the-competitive-landscape_1577583.jpg) > [There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don’t think that’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-horvitz/there-have-been-concerns-about-the-long-term-prospect-that-we-lose/) [Eric Horvitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-horvitz/) [Certain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/certain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50c/eric-horvitz-81744_certain_there-have-been-concerns-about-the-long_2296299.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-horvitz/#itemlist", "name": "Eric Horvitz Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. 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