Udi Manber
Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientist Udi Manber (Template:Langx) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is one of the authors of agrep and GLIMPSE. After a career in engineering and management, he worked on medical research.
Education
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 PhD in computer science in 1982.
Career
Template:Like resume 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. Together with Gene Myers he developed the suffix array, a data structure for string matching.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
He was a professor at the University of Arizona and authored several articles while there, including "Using Induction to Design Algorithms" summarizing his textbook (which remains in print) Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Patent</ref> In 2004, Google promoted sponsored listings for its own recruiting whenever someone searched for his name on Google's search engine.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2006, he was hired by Google as one of their vice presidents of engineering.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In December 2007, he announced Knol, Google's project to create a knowledge repository.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In October 2010, he was responsible for all the search products at Google.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In October 2014, Manber was named the vice president of engineering at YouTube.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In February 2015, Manber announced that he was leaving YouTube for the National Institutes of Health.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He left the role in 2016.
In February 2017, Manber went to work for the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and a technical advisor to UCSF's Institute for Computational Health Sciences.Template:Citation needed
In October 2018, it was reported that Manber was joining Anthem as its chief AI officer.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
References
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- IT Conversations podcast about Google search
- Google employees
- American male non-fiction writers
- American chief executives in technology
- American businesspeople in the computer industry
- American computer scientists
- Israeli computer scientists
- Jewish American non-fiction writers
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- Living people
- University of Arizona faculty
- University of Washington alumni
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
- University of California, San Francisco staff
- 21st-century American Jews