Urs Hölzle
Computer Science, Organization founder
Who is Urs Hölzle?
Urs Hölzle served as the company's first vice president
of engineering and led the development of Google's technical
infrastructure. His current responsibilities include the design and
operation of the servers, networks and datacenters that power Google.
He is also renowned for both his red socks and his free-range
Leonberger, Yoshka (Google's top dog). Urs joined Google from the
University of California, Santa Barbara where he was an associate
professor of computer science. 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.
As one of the pioneers of dynamic compilation, also known as
"just-in-time compilation," Urs invented fundamental techniques used in
most of today's leading Java compilers. Before joining Google, Urs was
a co-founder of Animorphic Systems, which developed compilers for
Smalltalk and Java. After Sun Microsystems acquired Animorphic Systems
in 1997, he helped build Javasoft's high-performance Hotspot Java
compiler.
In 1996, Urs received a CAREER award from the National Science
Foundation for his work on high-performance implementations of
object-oriented languages. He was also a leading contributor to DARPA's
National Compiler Infrastructure project. Urs has served on program
committees for major conferences in the field of programming language
implementation, and is the author of numerous scientific papers and
U.S. patents.
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- Education
- Master's Degree, ETH Zurich
Computer Science
(1983 - 1988) - PhD, Stanford University
Computer Science
(1988 - 1994)
- Master's Degree, ETH Zurich
- Employment
- Senior Vice President of Operations and Google Fellow, Google
- Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
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on July 23, 2013
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