Anna Patterson

Anna Patterson is a software engineer. She contributed to search engines and artificial intelligence at Google, and co-founded Cuil.[1]

Anna Patterson in front of Olin Library at her alma mater Washington University in St. Louis.

Education

Patterson received her B.S. in Computer Science and another in Electrical Engineering from Washington University[2] and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign[3] and was a Research Scientist at Stanford University in artificial intelligence working with John McCarthy on Phenomenal Data Mining and Carolyn Talcott on theorem provers.[4]

Career

While she was working in Google's Android organization, Patterson was responsible for a division of Google Play including Books and Search, Recommendations and Infrastructure for scaling up Android from 40 million phones to over 800 million phones.[5]

She was a co-founder of Cuil, a clustering-based search engine (which she created after leaving Google in 2007)[6] and wrote Recall.archive.org (part of the Wayback Machine), a history-based search engine out of the Internet Archive, which showed trends over time.

Awards and honors

Patterson was a winner of the 2016 ABIE Award,[7] and one of the seminal contributors to search engines.[8] As of 2017 she was Founder and Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures[9] and Vice President of Engineering at Google.[10] She also serves on the board of Square Inc.[11] She was previously a trustee at Harvey Mudd College[12] and a trustee at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute[13] and on the National Engineering Council at Washington University in St. Louis.[14]

References
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  6. Tsotsis, Alexia. "Cuil Founder (And Former Googler) Anna Patterson Moves Back To Google". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  7. "Anna Patterson - Grace Hopper". 2016-08-05. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  8. "Cuil Founder (And Former Googler) Anna Patterson Moves Back To Google". TechCrunch.
  9. Novet, Jordan (2017-07-11). "Google will invest in AI startups and send its engineers to help them out for up to a year". CNBC. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
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  11. "Square Names Anna Patterson, Founder and Managing Partner of Google's Gradient Ventures, to Board of Directors".
  12. "2016–2017 Members of the Board | Harvey Mudd College". www.hmc.edu.
  13. "Anna Patterson". www.msri.org.
  14. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2015-02-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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