Matthew Gray created Wanderer, the first autonomous agent on the web. When just 130 sites entertained the total web, Matthew Gray was the first to create the web spider, the first web search engine, Wanderer.

In google book search blog, Matthew has posted about how he wrote a program to plot the world, with the frequency of its locations mentioned in books. Matthew says

“I wanted to show the Earth viewed from books, where individual mentions of locations in books combine to yield another interpretation of the globe. The intensity of each pixel is proportional to the number of times the location at a given set of coordinates is mentioned across all of the books in Google Books Search.”

Matthew is now working in Google, Boston.

Mark

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