Steve Lawrence is an Australian computer scientist. He was among the group at NEC Research which was responsible for the creation of the

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. He was an employee at

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. He is currently a co-founder & CTO at Xoo. Lawrence received

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and

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degrees from

Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area viz. Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove. The univ ...

in Australia, and his

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from the

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in Australia. He became a Senior Research Scientist at NEC Research Institute. He was a Senior Research Scientist at Google where he developed Google Desktop. Lawrence's professional service includes being

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co-chair for WWW 2003, program committee vice chair for WWW 2002, co-chair for workshops at AAAI and WWW, a program committee member for conferences including WWW, CIKM, and NIPS, and a reviewer for many journals including ''

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''. Lawrence's research interests include information retrieval, digital libraries, and machine learning. He has published over 50 papers in these areas, including articles in ''Science'', ''Nature'', ''CACM'', and ''

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Computer''. He has been interviewed by over 100 news organizations including the ''

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, CNN,

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, the

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, and NPR. Hundreds of articles about his research have appeared worldwide in over 10 different languages.

Awards and honors

* NEC Research Institute Excellence awards * NEC Research Impact awards * Queensland University of Technology university medal and award for excellence * ATERB scholarship * APRA priority scholarship, * Technology NJ Internet Innovator award * QEC and Telecom Australia Engineering prizes, * Three prizes in the

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External links

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The Internet Archive’s copy of Dr. Steve Lawrence’s old NEC Research homepage

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