Keynote Address

Will E-commerce change the world? Yes.

Do we know how? No.

Are there any interesting unsolved technical and other problems? In abundance.

Udi Manber, winner of the 1999 Annual Software Tools Users Group award, is Chief Scientist at Yahoo!. Before joining Yahoo! in 1998, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Arizona. He wrote more than 50 technical articles, 3 of which won best paper awards, co-developed Agrep, Glimpse, Harvest, and the Search Broker, and wrote a popular textbook on design of algorithms.