Anna Patterson
Anna Patterson (born 1973 in Chicago) is an American academic and technologist. She is president of Cuil, a search engine. Patterson is noted for having created the world’s biggest search engine index consisting of 30 billion pages using information from the Internet Archive at Archive.org.
Anna Patterson
Born Chicago, Illinois
Nationality American
Occupation president of Cuil
Spouse(s) Tom Costello
Website: www.cuil.com
Career
Patterson received her PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a research scientist at Stanford University working on data mining. She also created a search engine index of 30 billion pages using information from the Internet Archive at Archive.org, after which she was employed by Google from 2004 until 2006.[1] Patterson then founded Cuil and became its president.[2]
At Google she was the architect of Google’s large search index TeraGoogle which launched in early 2006. Besides serving architecture she was the technical lead for one of the two Web ranking groups at Google, in charge of GoogleBase and the manager for a core piece of Google’s ads-matching technology.
Personal life
Patterson is the mother of four children and married to Tom Costello.
Source: wikipedia.org
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