Name Louis Monier | ||
Education University of Paris-Sud, University of Paris Similar People Doug Imbruce, Sergey Brin, David Drummond, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt | ||
Expoziție Louis Monier la Biblioteca Franceză Eugène Ionesco din Galați
Louis Monier (born March 21, 1956) was a founder of the Internet search engine AltaVista. After he left AltaVista, he worked at eBay and then at Google. He left Google in August 2007 to join Cuil, a search engine startup. He was Vice President of Products at Cuil. One month after the launch, he left Cuil, citing differences with the CEO. He also was the co-founder and CTO of Qwiki with Doug Imbruce. Qwiki won the TechCrunch Disrupt Award in 2010 and was recently sold to Yahoo.
Monier received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Paris XI, France in 1980 and worked at Carnegie Mellon University, Xerox PARC, and DEC's Western Research Laboratory.
Louis was the Chief Scientist of Proximic until July 2013, and has founded a health technology company, Kyron.