Udi Manber
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Udi Manber (Hebrew: אודי מנבר) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is one of the authors of agrep and GLIMPSE. As of April 2008, he is employed by Google as one of their vice presidents of engineering.[1]
[edit] Biography
He earned both his bachelor's degree in 1975 in mathematics and his master's degree in 1978 from the Technion in Israel. At the University of Washington, he earned another master's degree in 1981 and his Ph.D. in computer science in 1982.
He has won a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, 3 best-paper awards, and the Usenix annual Software Tools User Group Award software award in 1999. He develped suffix array, a data structure for string matching, with Gene Myers.[2]
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 on algorithms.
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 appointed CEO of the Amazon subsidiary company A9.com. He filed a patent on behalf of Amazon.[3]
In 2006, he was hired by Google as one of their vice presidents of engineering. In December 2007, he announced Knol, Google's new project to create a knowledge repository.[4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Google Management". Google. http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#udi. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
- ^ Udi Manber and Gene Myers (1991). "Suffix arrays: a new method for on-line string searches". SIAM Journal on Computing, Volume 22, Issue 5 (October 1993), pp. 935–948.
- ^ US patent 7287042 "Search engine system supporting inclusion of unformatted search string after domain name portion of URL" oldest priority March 3, 2004
- ^ Manber, Udi (2007-12-13). "Encouraging people to contribute knowledge". Official Google Blog. Google. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
[edit] External links
- http://manber.com/
- IT Conversations podcast about Google search
