Gary Chevsky
Encyclopedia
Gary Chevsky was the founding architect of Ask.com
. He immigrated to the United States
in 1988 and settled in San Francisco, California
.
From 1995 to 2006, Gary worked on question answering
and information-retrieval technologies at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com
).
Gary is currently a Vice President of Engineering at Tango mobile video and audio-over-IP calling service for consumers.
From 2009 to 2011, he served as Vice President of Product Development, Operations & IT for YouSendIt
. Prior to that, he was a Vice President of Engineering at Symantec Corporation in its Consumer Business Unit (famous for its Norton
brand), developing the next generation of web security technologies, such as Norton Safe Web.
Gary holds 4 patents #7403938, 7639162, 7911362, and 7912634, and has another pending #20070078842 in the area of natural language processing and search / information retrieval. He is featured in the Search Engine exhibit in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
Ask.com
Ask is a Q&A focused search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine...
. He immigrated to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in 1988 and settled in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
.
From 1995 to 2006, Gary worked on question answering
Question answering
In information retrieval and natural language processing , question answering is the task of automatically answering a question posed in natural language...
and information-retrieval technologies at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com
Ask.com
Ask is a Q&A focused search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine...
).
Gary is currently a Vice President of Engineering at Tango mobile video and audio-over-IP calling service for consumers.
From 2009 to 2011, he served as Vice President of Product Development, Operations & IT for YouSendIt
YouSendIt
YouSendIt is a Web-based secure digital file delivery company, which lets users securely send, receive and track files on demand. It is an alternative to sending large e-mail attachments, using FTP, and sending CDs or DVDs or tape or USB flash drive via Sneakernet...
. Prior to that, he was a Vice President of Engineering at Symantec Corporation in its Consumer Business Unit (famous for its Norton
Peter Norton Computing
Peter Norton Computing, Inc., was a software company founded by Peter Norton. The first and most notable software package it produced is the Norton Utilities. Another very popular software was Norton Commander, especially the DOS version. In 1990, the company was acquired by Symantec. The...
brand), developing the next generation of web security technologies, such as Norton Safe Web.
Gary holds 4 patents #7403938, 7639162, 7911362, and 7912634, and has another pending #20070078842 in the area of natural language processing and search / information retrieval. He is featured in the Search Engine exhibit in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.