Andrei Broder
Andrei Broder · Technology & Engineering
Invented MinHash deduplication powering web search; Kanellakis Award (2012, 2020)
1953, Bucharest, Romania
Romania · Israel · United States
Andrei Broder is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Invented MinHash deduplication powering web search; Kanellakis Award (2012, 2020)
Andrei Broder is a computer scientist who invented MinHash, a technique for estimating set similarity that made large-scale near-duplicate detection and web-search deduplication practical, first used in AltaVista. His work won the Kanellakis Award (2012 and 2020). Born into a Jewish family in Romania, he emigrated to Israel and studied at the Technion before working in the United States.
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Invented MinHash deduplication powering web search; Kanellakis Award (2012, 2020)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award
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