Louis Monier is founder of Internet search engine AltaVista. Later, he was chief technical officer at eBay. He currently works at Google. Monier received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Université de Paris in 1980 and did stints at Carnegie Mellon University, Xerox PARC, and DEC's Western Research Laboratory. Wikipedia
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