Paul Flaherty (computer scientist)

Paul Andrew Flaherty 2005

Paul Andrew Flaherty (born March 14, 1964 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , † March 16, 2006 in Belmont , California ) was an American computer scientist and electrical engineer. He was a renowned specialist in Internet protocols and was a co-developer of the AltaVista search engine .

Career

Paul Flaherty studied electrical engineering with mathematics as a minor at Marquette University in Milwaukee from 1982 to 1986 . He completed his bachelor's degree with summa cum laude . He then moved to Stanford University in California, where he did his master's degree from 1986 to 1989 and received his doctorate in 1994. He wrote his doctoral thesis on network systems and their performance improvement through traffic analysis. In 1986 and 1987 he also worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories .

He moved to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1994 , where he developed the AltaVista search engine, which went online in 1995. AltaVista became a leading search engine in the late 1990s, before Google took over that role. The search engine brought DEC more than 4.5 billion US dollars a. In 1999, Flaherty became the technical director at AltaVista.

In May 2000 he moved to the small consulting -Anbieter Zindigo , where he remained for 15 months. In July 2001 he started working for Accenture , a large consulting company, which he left in February 2003.

His last position was TalkPlus , a small telecommunications company, where he started in June 2005. He was Vice President of Product Development and helped develop the company's market strategy .

Paul Flaherty died of a heart attack at the age of 42. He leaves behind his wife Natasha Margaret Minenko Flaherty, his parents and four brothers. He was buried on March 28, 2006 in Fargo , North Dakota .

Web links

• AltaVista founder died of heart attack , heise online