Scott Hassan is a computer programmer and entrepreneur who was the main programmer of the original Google Search engine, then known as BackRub. He was research assistant at Stanford University at the time. Hassan left before Google was officially founded as a company. [1][2]
In 1997 Hassan founded FindMail, later renamed to eGroups.com, an email list management web site. The company was bought by Yahoo! for $432m in a stock deal and became Yahoo! Groups.[3][4]
In 2006 Hassan started Willow Garage, a robotics research lab and technology incubator. The organization created the open source robotics software suite ROS (Robot Operating System). Willow Garage shut down in early 2014.[5][6]
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