Erik Selberg

Erik Selberg is an American software developer best known for the creation of MetaCrawler,^[1] one of the first Web meta-search engines. He is currently a Senior Manager at Amazon.com heading the Item Authority team. He was most recently a Senior Developer at Microsoft on the Live Search product team. He maintains a blog at 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 the University 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.

Selected 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.

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