Anna Patterson
Anna Patterson is a software engineer and a contributor to search engines.
Education
Patterson received her B.S. in Computer Science and another in Electrical Engineering from McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and was a Research Scientist at Stanford University in artificial intelligence working with John McCarthy on Phenomenal Data Mining and Carolyn Talcott on theorem provers.Career
As of 2017 she was Founder and Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures and Vice President of Engineering at Google. While she was working in Google's Android organization, Patterson was responsible for a division of Google Play including Books and Search, Recommendations and Infrastructure for scaling up Android from 40 million phones to over 800 million phones.She co-founded Cuil, a search engine and wrote Recall.archive.org, a history-based search engine out of the Internet Archive, which showed trends over time.