Craig Silverstein is currently on leave from Stanford University,
where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science, with a focus on information
retrieval and data mining. Silverstein contributed his expertise in
compression algorithms to Google while it was still a research
project at Stanford. His other academic pursuits include super-efficient
versions of basic data structures such as hash tables as well as efficient
clustering of large data sets using Scatter/Gather and latent semantic indexing as
it relates to clustering, which he explored at Xerox PARC.
Silverstein graduated with honors with a bachelor's degree in
computer science from Harvard College, from which he also received Phi Beta
Kappa distinction, the Microsoft Technical Scholarship, and twice received
the Derek Bok Award for Teaching Excellence. He was the first employee
hired at Google by the company's founders.
