Marc Najork
Marc-Alexander Najork | |
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| Born | August 14, 1963 |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Technische Universität Darmstadt |
| Known for | Information retrieval, web search |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Google DeepMind, Google Research, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Thesis | Programming in Three Dimensions (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Simon M. Kaplan |
| Website | https://marc.najork.org |
Marc-Alexander Najork is a distinguished research scientist at Google DeepMind working on generative artificial intelligence. His career spans research at Google Research, Microsoft Research and DEC Systems Research Center on data retrieval, link-based ranking algorithms, detection of spam websites, a distributed web crawler, and a scripting system for 3D animations, among others. He has served in several leadership positions for publications and conferences of the Association for Computing Machinery. He has coauthored over a hundred research papers and holds over 40 US patents. He is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, and AAIA Fellow.