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Othar Hansson

Columbia College, Class of 1987

Principal Engineer, Google; earlier, decision-theoretic scheduling for NASA's EUVE, Cassini, and Deep Space missions; 17 US patents.

From Notable Alumni · Foundation editorial

Principal Engineer, Google; earlier, decision-theoretic scheduling for NASA's EUVE, Cassini, and Deep Space missions; 17 US patents

Vital

Full name
Othar Hansson

Columbia & the Society

Columbia
Class of 1987 (Columbia College)
Society role
Co-revivalist of the Philolexian Society (1985), the "Othar."

Works (28)

  1. 1989 Heuristic search as evidential reasoning · Proc. UAI
  2. 1990 Probabilistic heuristic estimates · Annals of Math. and AI
  3. 1992 A new result on the complexity of heuristic estimates for the A* algorithm · Artificial Intelligence
  4. 1992 Criticizing solutions to relaxed models yields powerful admissible heuristics · Information Sciences
  5. 1993 Decision-theoretic control of EUVE telescope scheduling · NASA / Berkeley report
  6. 1994 DTS: A decision-theoretic scheduler for space telescope applications · Working notes (NASA)
  7. 1995 Automating mission scheduling for space-based observatories · Conference paper
  8. 1998 Bayesian problem-solving applied to scheduling · PhD dissertation, UC Berkeley
  9. 2003 Auction system and method for pricing/allocation during capital formation · Patent
  10. 2004 The CICT Earth Science Systems Analysis Model · NASA conference paper
  11. 2009 Introducing rich snippets · Google Webmaster Central Blog
  12. 2010 System & method for pricing/allocation of commodities or securities · US 7,644,034 B2 (Hambrecht)
  13. 2012 Auction system and method (continuation) · US 8,117,112 B2 (Hambrecht)
  14. 2012 Customizing behavior of multiple search engines · US 8,301,615 B1 (Google)
  15. 2013 Generating midstring query refinements · US 8,577,913 B1 (Google)
  16. 2014 Dynamic specification of custom search engines at query-time · US 8,892,552 B1 (Google)
  17. 2014 Selective requesting of cached resources · US 8,880,635 B1 (Google)
  18. 2014 Showing prominent users for information retrieval requests · US 8,825,698 B1 (Google)
  19. 2014 System and method of displaying related sites · US 8,812,500 B2 (Google)
  20. 2015 Showing prominent users for IR requests (cont.) · US 9,165,030 B1 (Google)
  21. 2016 Framework for selecting answer boxes as query suggestions · US 9,396,268 B2 (Google)
  22. 2016 Identifying non-search actions based on a search query · US 9,460,209 B1 (Google)
  23. 2019 System and method for confirming authorship of documents · US 10,331,770 B1 (Google)
  24. 2019 User state-adaptive text input · US 10,282,089 B2 (Google)
  25. 2021 Speaker verification using co-location information · US 10,986,498 B2 (Google)
  26. 2024 Speaker verification using co-location information (cont.) · US 11,942,095 B2 (Google)
  27. 2025 Search suggestions based on native application history · US 12,430,368 B2 (Google)
  28. 2026 Predictive query completion and predictive search results · US 12,566,784 B2 (Google)

Primary sources

Columbia College Today & other articles

Columbia College Today — vol. 29 (Spring/Summer 1987), Vinciguerra Philolexian essay
Obviously, the problem faced by my five associates ('three Mikes, a Jeff, and an Othar,' Jacqueline Shea Murphy wrote in Spectator; their surnames are Kaufmann, Marubio, Maschio, Arle, and Hansson) and me when we first met in the fall of 1985 was making sure that a third demise did not occur.

Co-revivalist of the Philolexian Society, fall 1985.

Columbia College Today — vol. 29 (Spring/Summer 1987), Vinciguerra Philolexian essay →

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