- Gary William Flake
Dr. Gary William Flake is a Technical Fellow at
Microsoft and author of the book, "The Computational Beauty of Nature " (MIT Press 1998 ), which is used in college courses worldwide. He has numerous publications spanning over 15 years which have focused on machine learning, data mining, and self-organization. His other research interests include Web measurements, efficient algorithms, models of adaptation inspired by nature, and time series forecasting.Flake received his
bachelor's degree in1989 fromClemson University , and hisPhD in1993 from theUniversity of Maryland, College Park .He became a research scientist at NEC Research Institute in
2000 and the leader of its Webdata-mining program.Dr. Flake became Overture's Chief Science Officer in
2002 , and after Yahoo merged with Overture, ranYahoo! Research Labs, its corporate research and development activities, and company-wide innovation effort, eventually becoming a vice-president.He joined Microsoft in
2005 . He is responsible for bridging Microsoft Research andMSN , and for setting the technology vision and future direction of the MSN portal, web search, desktop search and commercial search efforts.Dr. Flake has served on numerous academic conference and workshop organization committees and is a member of the editorial board for the
Association for Computing Machinery 's Transactions onInternet Technologies.External references
* [http://flakenstein.net/cv/ Dr. Flake's "curriculum vitae"]
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