- Erik Selberg
Erik Selberg is an American software developer best known for the creation of
MetaCrawler [cite web |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=About MetaCrawler |url=http://www.metacrawler.com/info.metac/search/help/about.htm |quote=MetaCrawler was originally developed in 1994 at the University of Washington by then graduate student Erik Selberg and Associate Professor Oren Etzioni.|publisher= |date= |accessdate=2007-08-22 ] , one of the first Web meta-search engines. He is currently a Senior Manager atAmazon.com heading the Item Authority team. He was most recently a Senior Developer atMicrosoft on theLive Search product team. He maintains a blog at [http://selberg.org selberg.org] .Early Years and Education
Selberg was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1972. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, with his family when he was 3 years old. He lived there until he left to attend college at
Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. In 1993, he graduated with a double major in Mathematics/Computer Science and Logic & Computation, and proceeded to attend theUniversity of Washington for graduate studies in computer science and engineering. He earned his Masters in Computer Science and Engineering in 1995, and his Ph.D. in 1999.Publications
"On the Instability of Web Search." Erik Selberg and Oren Etzioni. In RIAO '00: Content-based Multimedia Access, Apr., 2000.
"Towards Comprehensive Web Search." Erik Selberg. Ph. D. Thesis, University of Washington, June, 1999.
"Experiments with Collaborative Index Enhancement." Erik Selberg and Oren Etzioni. University of Washington Tech Report UW-CSE-98-06-01, June 1998.
"The MetaCrawler Architecture for Resource Aggregation on the Web." IEEE Expert, Jan. / Feb. 1997, 12(1).
"Multi-Service Search and Comparison using the MetaCrawler." Erik Selberg and Oren Etzioni. In Proceedings of the 4th International World Wide Web Conference, Dec., 1995.
"TRON: Process-Specific File Protection for the UNIX Operating System." Andrew Berman, Virgil Bourassa, and Erik Selberg. In Proceedings of the 1995 Winter USENIX Conference, Jan., 1995.
"How to Stop a Cheater: Secret Sharing with Dishonest Participants." Erik Selberg. Carnegie Mellon University Tech Report CMU-CS-93-182, June 1993.
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
