Anna Patterson

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

Anna Patterson is a software engineer and a contributor to search engines.[1]

Education

Patterson received her B.S. in Computer Science and another in Electrical Engineering from McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis[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

As of 2017 she was Founder and Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures[5] and Vice President of Engineering at Google. 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.[6]

She co-founded Cuil, a clustering-based search engine (which she created after leaving Google in 2007)[1] 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] She also served on the board of Square Inc.[8] She was previously a trustee at Harvey Mudd College[9] and a trustee at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute[10] and on the National Engineering Council at Washington University in St. Louis.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Tsotsis, Alexia. "Cuil Founder (And Former Googler) Anna Patterson Moves Back To Google". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  2. ^ "Anna Patterson". Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  3. ^ "Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc. - NetHappenings: Anna Patterson and Tom Costello launch cuil.com". Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  4. ^ "annap". formal.stanford.edu.
  5. ^ 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 2022-04-20.
  6. ^ "Anna Patterson". makers.com.
  7. ^ "Anna Patterson - Grace Hopper". 2016-08-05. Retrieved 2016-09-07.[permanent dead link‍]
  8. ^ "Square Names Anna Patterson, Founder and Managing Partner of Google's Gradient Ventures, to Board of Directors".
  9. ^ "2016–2017 Members of the Board | Harvey Mudd College". www.hmc.edu.
  10. ^ "Anna Patterson". www.msri.org.
  11. ^ "Anna Patterson". Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2015-02-03.