Andrei Broder
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Andrei Broder is a Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo!. He previously has worked for AltaVista as the vice president of research, and for IBM Research as a Distinguished Engineer & CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis.
He has done research into the internet, and internet searching. He is credited with being one of the first people to develop a Captcha, while working for AltaVista. He also participated in the development of a near-duplicate detection algorithm, and of the bow-tie model of the web graph, among other works.
He earned his bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) from the Technion in Israel, and a master's degree and PhD (1985) from Stanford University, where his advisor was Donald Knuth.
[edit] References
- Broder, Andrei (2006). Interview: "Search without a Box". Yahoo! Search Blog. Retrieved on 2006-03-04.
- Yahoo! Appoints Dr. Andrei Broder as Research Fellow. Yahoo! Press Release (2005). Retrieved on 2006-03-04.
- Interview in Barcelona: Workshop The Future of Web Search (Video). OJObuscador (2006). Retrieved on 2006-05-20.
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