Scott Hassan is a computer programmer and entrepreneur who was the main programmer of the original

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engine, then known as BackRub. He was research assistant at Stanford University at the time. Hassan left before Google was officially founded as a company. In 1997 Hassan founded FindMail, later renamed to eGroups.com, an email list management web site. The company was bought by

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for $432m in a stock deal and became

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. In 2006 Hassan started

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, a robotics research lab and technology incubator. The organization created the open source robotics software suite

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. Willow Garage shut down in early 2014.

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