User:Ciemo
Ciemo aka David Ciemiewicz
I am currently employed by Yahoo! working on the YST - Yahoo! Search Technology, our search engine.
My tenure in the Silicon Valley includes:
- Inktomi/Yahoo! - 2002 - present
- @Home Network - 1996 - 2002
- Silicon Graphics - 1986 - 1996
My diverse interests are numerous and include, but are definitely not limited to:
family, linguistics, memes, statistics, computing, search engines, scientific visualization.
Recent influential authors, works, include (in no particular order):
Edward Tufte, Joseph Campbell, Tao Te Ching, Dava Sobel's Longitude, Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct, Scientific American, JK Rowling's Harry Potter, Richard Dawkins
--- About my nickname: Ciemo
Ciemo is short for Ciemiewicz (as Lindy is short for Lindburg).
Interesting variations on the meaning of "Ciemo" in other contexts:
The "ciemo ciemo" dance: apparently an acronym for chinese-indians-eurasians-malays-others.
CIÉAMO is the Montreal-based "Consortium inter-universitaire pour les études arabes et moyen-orientales" (http://www.icames-ciemo.ca).