Udi Manber () is an Israeli computer scientist. He is one of the authors of agrep and GLIMPSE. After a career in engineering and management, he worked on medical research.

Education

He earned both his

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in 1975 in mathematics and his

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in 1978 from the Technion in Israel. At the

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, he earned another master's degree in 1981 and his

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in computer science in 1982.

Career

He has won a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, 3 best-paper awards, and the

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annual Software Tools User Group Award software award in 1999. Together with Gene Myers he developed the

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, a

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for string matching. He was a professor at the

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and authored several articles while there, including "Using Induction to Design Algorithms" summarizing his textbook (which remains in print) ''Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach''. He became the chief scientist at

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in 1998. In 2002, he joined

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, where he became "chief algorithms officer" and a vice president. He later was appointed

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of the Amazon

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company A9.com. He filed a patent on behalf of Amazon. In 2004,

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promoted sponsored listings for its own recruiting whenever someone searched for his name on Google's search engine. In 2006, he was hired by Google as one of their vice presidents of engineering. In December 2007, he announced

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, Google's project to create a knowledge repository. In October 2010, he was responsible for all the search products at Google. In October 2014, Manber was named the vice president of engineering at

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. In February 2015, Manber announced that he was leaving YouTube for the

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. He left the role in 2016. In February 2017, Manber went to work for the Department of Medicine at the

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and a technical advisor to UCSF's Institute for Computational Health Sciences. In October 2018, it was reported that Manber was joining

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as its chief AI officer.

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