- Udi Manber
Udi Manber ( _he. אודי מנבר) is an
Israel i computer scientist. He is one of the authors ofagrep andGLIMPSE . As of April 2008, he is employed byGoogle as one of their vice presidents of engineering. [cite web | title = Google Management | publisher =Google | url = http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#udi | accessdate = 2008-04-23]Biography
He earned both his
bachelor's degree in 1975 in mathematics and hismaster's degree in 1978 from theTechnion inIsrael . At theUniversity of Washington , he earned another master's degree in 1981 and hisPh.D. in computer science in 1982.He has won a
Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, 3 best-paperawards, and theUsenix annual Software Tools User Group Award software award in 1999.He was a professor at the
University of Arizona and authored several articles while there. He wrote "Introduction to Algorithms — A Creative Approach" (ISBN 0-201-12037-2), a book onalgorithms .He became the chief scientist at
Yahoo! in 1998.In 2002, he joined
Amazon.com , where he became "chief algorithms officer" and a vice president. He later was appointedCEO of the Amazonsubsidiary companyA9.com . He filed a patent on behalf of Amazon. [patent|US|7287042|"Search engine system supporting inclusion of unformatted search string after domain name portion of URL" oldest priority March 3, 2004]In 2006, he was hired by
Google as one of their vice presidents of engineering. In December 2007, he announcedKnol , Google's new project to create a knowledge repository. [cite web | last = Manber | first = Udi | authorlink = Udi Manber | title = Encouraging people to contribute knowledge | work = Official Google Blog | publisher =Google | date = 2007-12-13 | url = http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html | accessdate = 2008-04-23]Notes
External links
* [http://manber.com/ http://manber.com/]
* [http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3360.html IT Conversations ] podcast about Google search
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