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Andrei Broder

Andrei Broder is a computer scientist who worked at AltaVista, IBM, Yahoo and Google and is known for work on web search and computational advertising.

born 1953Min-hashing for near-duplicate documentsCo-inventing CAPTCHAFounding computational advertisingThe bow-tie model of the Web

Born: 12 April 1953, Bucharest
Occupation: computer scientist
Education: Stanford University, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Andrei Broder was born in 1953 in Bucharest

Broder was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1953. His parents were medical doctors. He began studying electronics at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, and the family moved to Israel in 1973.

He studied at the Technion, starting in electrical engineering and later moving to computer science, and graduated in 1977 with a B.Sc. summa cum laude. After serving as a medic in the IDF Medical Corps, he went to Stanford University. He completed his PhD there in 1985 under Donald Knuth.

He joined the DEC Systems Research Center in Palo Alto and worked on AltaVista from its start, dealing with duplicate documents and spam. When AltaVista became independent, he served as its CTO, then chief scientist and vice president of research. In 1998 he co-invented an early CAPTCHA test, and in 2000 he took part in a large-scale analysis of the Web graph.

In 2002 he moved to IBM Research in New York, and in 2005 he joined Yahoo as a fellow and vice president, where he helped found computational advertising. In 2012 he joined Google as a distinguished scientist, working on large-scale personalization. He is married to Yafa and lives in California.