By Bill Slawski, on February 8, 2006
Google has added another top search scientist to their team.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted yesterday that Udi Manber, chief executive of Amazon’s A9, will be leaving the Seattle-based company to become a Vice President at Google.
Both John Battelle and Gary Price have more on the move.
Udi Manber was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Arizona. During his academic career, he co-developed a number of popular search software packages.
He joined Yahoo! as their chief scientist in 1998.
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By Bill Slawski, on December 22, 2005
Dirson reports about a usenet thread noting that Guido van Rossum, the inventor of the computer language Python, has joined Google.
There hasn’t been an official announcement, but a Googler responding to the thread notes that Guido van Rossum sits about 15 meters away from him.
Python is a popular language at Google these days, used in a number of their programs, perhaps most visibly in the software they are distributing to help people create sitemaps.
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