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).