Udi Manber
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Agrep
agrep is a proprietary fuzzy string searching program, developed by Udi Manber and Sun Wu between 1988 and 1991, for use with the Unix operating system...
and GLIMPSE
GLIMPSE
GLIMPSE is a text indexing and retrieval software program originally developed at the University of Arizona by Udi Manber, Sun Wu, and Burra Gopal. A web server version called WebGlimpse is now being maintained under a pay per line licence. Neither project could be considered open source although...
. As of April 2008, he is employed by Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
as one of their vice presidents of engineering.
Biography
He earned both his bachelor's degreeBachelor's degree
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in 1975 in mathematics and his master's degree
Master's degree
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in 1978 from the Technion in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. At the University of Washington
University of Washington
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, he earned another master's degree in 1981 and his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
in computer science in 1982.
He has won a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, 3 best-paper
awards, and the Usenix
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annual Software Tools User Group Award software award in 1999. He developed suffix array
Suffix array
In computer science, a suffix array is an array of integers giving the starting positions of suffixes of a string in lexicographical order.-Details:Consider the string...
, a data structure for string matching, with Gene Myers.
He was a professor at the University of Arizona
University of Arizona
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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!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
in 1998.
In 2002, he joined Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
, where he became "chief algorithms officer" and a vice president. He later was appointed CEO of the Amazon subsidiary
Subsidiary
A subsidiary company, subsidiary, or daughter company is a company that is completely or partly owned and wholly controlled by another company that owns more than half of the subsidiary's stock. The subsidiary can be a company, corporation, or limited liability company. In some cases it is a...
company A9.com
A9.com
A9.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com based in Palo Alto, California that develops search engine technology. A9 currently has over 100 employees in its Palo Alto, Bangalore, and Dublin offices.A9 has worked in 3 areas over the years....
. He filed a patent on behalf of Amazon.
In 2006, he was hired by Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
as one of their vice presidents of engineering. In December 2007, he announced Knol
Knol
Knol is a Google project that aims to include user-written articles on a range of topics. The project was led by Udi Manber of Google, announced December 13, 2007, and was opened in beta to the public on July 23, 2008 with a few hundred articles mostly in the health and medical field.Knol has no...
, Google's new project to create a knowledge repository.
As of October 13 2010 he is also responsible for all the search products at Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
. .
External links
- http://manber.com/
- IT Conversations podcast about Google search