On the Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors / Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services (PDF)

Mark Manasse was a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, which he joined in 2001, while writing the first edition of this book, and where he performed the research presented in the additional chapters that comprise the additional work presented in this second edition. From 1985 until he joined Microsoft, Mark was a researcher at Compaq's Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California (previously Digital Equipment Corporation, subsequently Hewlett-Packard and now extinct). Mark worked at Microsoft until late 2014. He is now a Principal Architect (working on infrastructure security) at Salesforce, which he thanks for their support while writing the final chapter of this second edition. Mark Manasse works in a variety of theory-related areas of distributed computer systems research. He was the inventor of MilliCent; as such, Wired Magazine dubbed him "the guru of micropayments," and he was co-chair of the microcommerce working group for the World Wide Web Consortium. Mark has worked on Web search technologies; with Andrei Broder, Steve Glassman, and Geoff Zweig, his work on syntactic similarity was awarded best paper at the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference. Mark was a member the design committee for the Inter-Client Communications Manual for the X Window System. Mark's work on on-line algorithms helped to establish this field, and remain among his most often cited papers. Mark organized, ran, and developed much of the code for some of the earliest uses of the Internet in distributed computations when he and Arjen Lenstra factored many large integers, the most noteworthy being the first factorization of a "hard" 100-digit number, and the factorization of the ninth Fermat number; for several years thereafter, Mark's license plate read "IDIDF9," leaving most other drivers puzzled. Mark holds U.S. patents in three of the previously mentioned areas. His doctorate was earned at the University of Wisconsin in Mathematical Logic in 1982, and he spent the