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ANNA PATTERSON

Anna Patterson is , as you ’ d expect , an accomplished AI leader . As a VP of Engineering at Google , she architected the search serving system that increased the index size by over 10x at the time of launch , helped Android scale from 3 million to over a billion phones . While she was working in Google ' s Android organisation , Patterson oversaw the Google Play division , which included Books and Search , Recommendations , and Infrastructure for scaling up Android from 40 million phones to over 800 million phones .
Gradient Ventures was launched by Alphabet and Patterson together , with the aim of investing in early-stage artificial intelligence start-ups . Patterson also co-founded Xift , later Cuil , a clustering-based search engine , and Recall , the first history-based search engine , both acquired by Google .
Patterson received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois and was an AI Research Scientist at Stanford University . aimagazine . com 91