Bill is responsible for large-scale distributed computing programs underlying Google's products. Bill joined Google in early 2003 where he began working with the web crawling, storage and other systems’ teams. During his more than 20-year career in computing, Bill has been involved with embedded software for networking systems, security system products, and computational science and engineering. Prior to Google, Bill co-founded and served as CEO and in other executive roles at Entrisphere in Silicon Valley. Prior to that, he worked at Bell Labs and headed up the Computing Sciences Research Center, where C, C++, Unix, Plan 9, and Inferno were created. Bill is an author of more than 50 publications and has served on several editorial, conference boards, and technical advisory committees. In addition, he has held adjunct and visiting positions at Stanford, the ETH, and Duke Universities. Bill holds an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University as well as a BS and a MS in mathematics from Caltech. |