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Anna Patterson is a software engineer and a contributor tosearch engines.[1]
Patterson received her B.S. in Computer Science and another in Electrical Engineering fromMcKelvey School of Engineering atWashington University in St. Louis[2] and herPh.D. from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign[3] and was a Research Scientist atStanford University inartificial intelligence working withJohn McCarthy on Phenomenal Data Mining andCarolyn Talcott on theorem provers.[4]
As of 2017 she was Founder and Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures[5] and Vice President of Engineering atGoogle. While she was working in Google'sAndroid organization, Patterson was responsible for a division ofGoogle Play including Books and Search, Recommendations and Infrastructure for scaling up Android from 40 million phones to over 800 million phones.[6]
She co-foundedCuil, a search engine (which she created after leaving Google in 2007)[1] and wrote Recall.archive.org (part of theWayback Machine), a history-based search engine out of theInternet Archive, which showed trends over time.
Patterson was a winner of the 2016ABIE Award.[7] She also served on the board ofSquare Inc.[8] She was previously a trustee atHarvey Mudd College[9] and a trustee at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute[10] and on the National Engineering Council atWashington University in St. Louis.[11]
