Dr. Erik Selberg

An American software developer best known for the creation of MetaCrawler, one of the first Web meta-search engines. He is currently a Senior Manager at Amazon.com heading the Item Authority team. He was most recently a Senior Developer at Microsoft on the Live Search product team. He maintains a blog at selberg.org. He attended college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. In 1993, he graduated with a double major in Mathematics/Computer Science and Logic & Computation, and proceeded to attend the University of Washington for graduate studies in computer science and engineering. He earned his Masters in Computer Science and Engineering in 1995, and his Ph.D. in 1999.