Andrei Zary Broder is a Research Fellow

Research fellow

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 and Vice President

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 of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo!

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. He previously has worked for AltaVista

AltaVista

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 as the vice president of research, and for IBM Research

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 as a Distinguished Engineer

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 and CTO

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 of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis.

Broder's research

Research

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 centers around the internet

Internet

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, and internet searching

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. He is credited with being one of the first people to develop a CAPTCHA

CAPTCHA

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, while working for AltaVista. He also invented the MinHash

MinHash

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 locality sensitive hashing

Locality sensitive hashing

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 scheme for quickly estimating the similarity between two sets, which was applied within AltaVista to find near-duplicate web documents, and he also developed the bow-tie model

Bow tie (biology)

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 of the web graph

Broder earned his bachelor's degree

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 (summa cum laude) from the Technion in Israel

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, and a master's degree

Master's degree

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 and Ph.D.

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 (1985) from Stanford University

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, where his advisor was Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

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. He is a fellow of ACM and IEEE.