Anna Patterson

Dr. Anna Patterson - Vice President of Engineering at Google

Anna Patterson has been described as one of the most important women in technology,[1] winner of the 2016 ABIE Award,[2] and one of the seminal contributors to search engines.[3] She is currently Vice President of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence at Google.[4] She is also currently a trustee at Harvey Mudd College[5] and a trustee at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute [6] and on the National Engineering Council at Washington University in St. Louis.[7] She is a co-founder of Progressive Women of Silicon Valley which helps host candidates and causes in Silicon Valley.[8]

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.[9] Before joining Android at Google, she was the principal architect of one of the firm's largest search serving systems - TeraGoogle - and also led efforts in web search, advertisements and shopping.[10]

She was a co-founder of Cuil, a clustering-based search engine[11] 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.[12] She wrote “Why writing your own search engine is hard” in the ACM Queue about this experience.[13]

Patterson received her B.S. in Computer Science and another in Electrical Engineering from Washington University[14] and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign[15] 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.[16]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/26-most-powerful-women-engineers-in-2016-2016-2
  2. ↑ "Anna Patterson - Grace Hopper". 2016-08-05. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  3. ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/14/cuil-google/
  4. ↑ http://www.makers.com/class-2014/google/anna-patterson
  5. ↑ https://www.hmc.edu/about-hmc/college-governance/members-of-the-board/
  6. ↑ https://www.msri.org/people/29360
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  8. ↑ http://websummit.net/speakers?source=sblg+blg+BldAnna&utm_source=sblg&utm_medium=blg&utm_campaign=BldAnna
  9. ↑ http://www.makers.com/class-2014/google/anna-patterson
  10. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  11. ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/14/cuil-google/
  12. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  13. ↑ http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=988407
  14. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  15. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-05. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  16. ↑ http://www-formal.stanford.edu/annap/thesis.ps
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