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'''Moses Samson Charikar''' is an [[India]]n [[computer scientist]] who works as a [[professor]] at [[Stanford University]]. He was previously a [[professor]] at [[Princeton University]]. The topics of his research include [[approximation algorithm]]s, [[streaming algorithm]]s, and [[metric embedding]]s. He is known for the creation of the [[SimHash]] [[algorithm]] used by [[Google]] for near duplicate detection.<ref><br />
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| last1 = Gurmeet Singh | first1 = Manku<br />
| last2 = Jain | first2 = Arvind<br />
| last3 = Das Sarma | first3 = Anish<br />
| contribution = Detecting near-duplicates for web crawling<br />
| title = Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web<br />
| url = http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/33026.pdf<br />
| year = 2007<br />
| doi = 10.1145/1242572.1242592| s2cid = 1414324<br />
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Charikar was born in [[Bombay]], India,<ref name="home"/> and competed for India at the 1990 and 1991 [[International Mathematical Olympiad]]s, winning bronze and silver medals respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=2497|title=Moses Samson Charikar|publisher= International Mathematical Olympiad|access-date=December 24, 2013}}<br />
</ref> He did his undergraduate studies at the [[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay]].<ref name="home">{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~moses/|title=Moses Charikar|publisher=Princeton University|access-date=December 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224155150/http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~moses/|archive-date=24 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2000 he completed a doctorate from [[Stanford University]], under the supervision of [[Rajeev Motwani]];<ref>{{mathgenealogy|id=71079}}</ref> he joined the Princeton faculty in 2001.<ref name="home"/><br />
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In 2012 he was awarded the [[Paris Kanellakis Award]] along with [[Andrei Broder]] and [[Piotr Indyk]] for their research on [[locality-sensitive hashing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/charikar_0308379.cfm |title=Moses S Charikar, ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, United States – 2012|publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]]|access-date= December 24, 2013}}</ref><br />
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