Andrei Broder
Chief Technology Officer,
AltaVista Search
Andrei Broder is chief technology officer of the AltaVista Search
division in the AltaVista Company. Previously he has been a senior
member of the research staff at Compaq's Systems Research Center in
Palo Alto, California. He was graduated Summa cum Laude from
Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology,
and holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford
University. He has co-authored more than 60 scientific papers and
numerous patents. His main research interests are the design,
analysis, and implementation of probabilistic algorithms and
supporting data structures, in particular in the context of web-scale
information retrieval and applications.