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Published on: 1/1/2006
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The first members of Zillow's TAB are three leading computer scientists - Oren Etzioni, Hank Levy and Hanan Samet - whose combined accomplishments include research and practical developments in data mining, Internet search, distributed operating systems and spatial databases/geographic information systems (GIS).
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Hank Levy is professor and Wissner-Slivka Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.Levy's research involves operating systems, computer architecture, distributed computing, and the Web.He is the author of two books and numerous publications, including 11 best paper award winners from top conferences in computer system design and implementation.With his UW colleagues, he invented Simultaneous Multithreading, which is used in several modern CPUs.Before joining the university in 1983, Hank spent 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he worked on operating systems, workstations, and early clustered computer products.Hank was also co-founder of Performant, Inc., which was acquired by Mercury in 2003.He is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and recipient of a Fulbright Research Scholar Award.