Erik Selberg

Name: Erik Selberg

Born: 1972

Computer-related contributions

• American software developer best known for the creation of MetaCrawler, one of the first Web meta-search engines.
• Former senior developer at Microsoft on the Live Search product team.
• Currently a senior manager at Amazon.com heading the Item Authority team.

Significant publications

• On the Instability of Web Search (2000).
• Towards Comprehensive Web Search. Ph.D. Thesis (1999).
• Experiments with Collaborative Index Enhancement Tech Report (1998).
• The MetaCrawler Architecture for Resource Aggregation on the Web (1997).
• Multi-Service Search and Comparison using the MetaCrawler (1995).
• TRON: Process-Specific File Protection for the UNIX Operating System (1995).
• How to Stop a Cheater: Secret Sharing with Dishonest Participants (1993).