Erik Selberg
Encyclopedia
Erik Selberg is an American software developer best known for the creation of MetaCrawler
, one of the first Web meta-search engines. He is currently a Senior Manager at Amazon.com
heading the Item Authority team. He was most recently a Senior Developer at Microsoft
on the Live Search product team. He maintains a blog at selberg.org.
, Alberta
, Canada
in 1972. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah
, with his family when he was 3 years old. He lived there until he left to attend college at Carnegie Mellon University
in 1989. In 1993, he graduated with a double major in Mathematics/Computer Science and Logic & Computation, and proceeded to attend the University of Washington
for graduate studies in computer science and engineering. He earned his Masters in Computer Science and Engineering in 1995, and his Ph.D.
in 1999.
MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing , Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. MetaCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, video, news, yellow pages and white pages...
, one of the first Web meta-search engines. He is currently a Senior Manager at Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
heading the Item Authority team. He was most recently a Senior Developer at Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
on the Live Search product team. He maintains a blog at selberg.org.
Early Years and Education
Selberg was born in EdmontonEdmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
in 1972. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
, with his family when he was 3 years old. He lived there until he left to attend college at Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
in 1989. In 1993, he graduated with a double major in Mathematics/Computer Science and Logic & Computation, and proceeded to attend the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
for graduate studies in computer science and engineering. He earned his Masters in Computer Science and Engineering in 1995, and his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
in 1999.
Selected publications
- On the Instability of Web Search. Erik Selberg and Oren Etzioni. In RIAO '00: Content-based Multimedia Access, Apr., 2000.
- Towards Comprehensive Web Search. Erik Selberg. Ph. D. Thesis, University of Washington, June, 1999.
- Experiments with Collaborative Index Enhancement. Erik Selberg and Oren Etzioni. University of Washington Tech Report UW-CSE-98-06-01, June 1998.
- The MetaCrawler Architecture for Resource Aggregation on the Web. IEEE Expert, Jan. / Feb. 1997, 12(1).
- Multi-Service Search and Comparison using the MetaCrawler. Erik Selberg and Oren Etzioni. In Proceedings of the 4th International World Wide Web Conference, Dec., 1995.
- TRON: Process-Specific File Protection for the UNIX Operating System. Andrew Berman, Virgil Bourassa, and Erik Selberg. In Proceedings of the 1995 Winter USENIX Conference, Jan., 1995.
- How to Stop a Cheater: Secret Sharing with Dishonest Participants. Erik Selberg. Carnegie Mellon University Tech Report CMU-CS-93-182, June 1993.