Education
Flake received his bachelor"s degree in 1989 from Clemson University, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1993 from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Author of the book, The Computational Beauty of Nature (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 1998), Flake created a number of publications focused on machine-learning, data-mining, and self-organization. His other research interests have included Web measurements, efficient algorithms, models of adaptation inspired by nature, and time-series forecasting. In 2000, Flake became a research scientist at Nippon Electric Corporation Research Institute and the leader of its Web data-mining program
In 2002, he became Overture"s Chief Science Officer.
After Yahoo merged with Overture, he ran Yahoo! Research Labs, corporate research-and-development activities, and company-wide innovation efforts, and eventually became a vice-president
Membership
Flake has served on numerous academic conference and workshop organization committees and is a member of the editorial board for the Association for Computing Machinery"s Transactions on Internet Technologies.
