Craig Nevill-Manning

Craig Graham Nevill-Manning (né Nevill)[1] is a New Zealand computer scientist who founded Google's first remote engineering center, located in midtown Manhattan, where he was an Engineering Director. He also invented Froogle (now Google Shopping), a product search engine.[2] He is now Head of Engineering at Sidewalk Labs.[3]

Academic and professional career

Nevill-Manning graduated with a BSc in computer science from the University of Canterbury. He received his PhD from the University of Waikato[4] where he was a co-creator of the Weka machine learning suite and the Greenstone digital library software.[5] In 1994, he invented the sequitur algorithm, which uses data compression to infer the structure of a sequence of symbols.

Prior to joining Google in 2001 as a senior research scientist, he was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Biochemistry department at Stanford University. His research interests center on using techniques from machine learning, data compression and computational biology to provide more structured search over information.

In 2016, Nevill-Manning joined Alphabet, Inc. subsidiary Sidewalk Labs as CTO.[6]

Awards

In 2010 Nevill-Manning received a distinguished alumni award from the University of Waikato.[7]

In 2009 he won a World Class New Zealand Award in the Information and Communications category.[2]

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References
  1. Laugesen, Ruth (15 January 2011). "Craig and Kirsten Nevill-Manning". Noted. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  2. World Class New Zealand 2009 Winners Archived 2013-02-27 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Sidewalk Labs Team". Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  4. https://waikato-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/3h5gm/64WAIKATO_ALMA2156446460003401
  5. https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/70189024/googles-top-kiwi-craig-nevill-manning-named-one-of-americas-greatest-immigrants-by-high-tech-carnegie-institute
  6. "Sidewalk Labs, Google's Company for Cities, Builds Its Inaugural Executive Team". Re/code. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  7. "Google expert honoured with Distinguished Alumni Award". University of Waikato. 9 August 2010. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2018.


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