Louis Monier

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

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Louis Monier (born March 21, 1956) is a cofounder of the defunct Internet search engine AltaVista together with Paul Flaherty and Michael Burrows. After he left AltaVista, he worked at eBay and then at Google. He left Google in August 2007 to join Cuil, a search engine startup.[http://cuil.com/founders.html Founders] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080728015213/http://www.cuil.com/founders.html |date=2008-07-28 }}, Cuil. He was Vice President of Products at Cuil. One month after the launch, he left Cuil, citing differences with the CEO.{{cite news|work=washingtonpost.com |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102551.html |title=Cuil's VP Product Bails Out A Month After Launch |access-date= 2008-09-11 | first=Michael | last=Arrington | date=2008-09-11}} He also was the co-founder and CTO of Qwiki with Doug Imbruce. Qwiki won the TechCrunch Disrupt Award in 2010 {{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/qwiki-techcrunch-disrupt-winner/|title=Qwiki Wins TechCrunch Disrupt: Information Consumption To Be Disrupted|work=TechCrunch|access-date=2018-11-04|language=en-US}} and was sold to Yahoo in 2013.{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/02/yahoo-acquires-qwiki-for-around-50-million/|title=Yahoo Acquires Qwiki For Around $50 Million|work=TechCrunch|access-date=2018-11-04|language=en-US}} In 2014, Yahoo shuttered Qwiki.

Monier received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Paris XI, France[http://www.linkedin.com/in/louismonier Louis Monier on LinkedIn] in 1980 and worked at Carnegie Mellon University, Xerox PARC, and DEC's Western Research Laboratory.

Louis was the Chief Scientist of Proximic until July 2013,{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/18/qwiki-cofounder-louis-monier-exits-joins-proximic/|title=Qwiki Cofounder Louis Monier Exits, Joins Proximic|work=TechCrunch|access-date=2018-11-04|language=en-US}} and has founded a health technology company, Kyron.