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The index build side The query serve side The search engine index

Instructor

Nicole Hamilton
Lecturer III
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
2649 Beyster
2260 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121

C: 425-765-9574
nham@umich.edu
https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~nham

Bio

I've spent most of my career as a system designer on new product teams and as an entrepreneur selling Hamilton C shell, a product I wrote in my living room 30 years ago.

In early 2003, I became the ninth dev on the team that created what became the Bing engine. I wrote the ranker, the part that orders the results, and the query compiler, that part that decides what the user is looking for. Overall, I contributed about 30 KLOC to the first release, representing about 10% of all the code in the backend as of the time we went live.

I never expected to be teaching at a university. I feel lucky to be here.