Urs Hoelzle

Urs Hölzle is senior vice president of operations and Google Fellow at Google. As one of Google's first ten employees, he has shaped much of Google's development processes and infrastructure.

Before joining Google, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. He received a master's degree in computer science from ETH Zurich in 1988 and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship that same year. In 1994, he earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University, where his research focused on programming languages and their efficient implementation. [http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#urs Google: Management Team] ]

He is credited for creating for April Fools day 2005 [http://www.google.com/googlegulp/history.html Google Gulp] ] .

External links

* [http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3487041 Peeking into Google]
* [http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~urs/ Urs page at UCSB]
* [http://www.google.com/googlegulp/history.html]

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