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{{Short description|Australian computer scientist}}
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'''Steve Lawrence''' is an Australian computer scientist. He was among the group at [[NEC Research]] which was responsible for the creation of the [[Search engine (computing)|Search Engine]]/[[Digital library|Digital Library]] [[CiteSeer]]. He was an employee at [[Google]]. He is currently a co-founder & CTO at Xoo.

Lawrence received [[Bachelor of Science]] and [[Bachelor of Engineering]] degrees from [[Queensland University of Technology]] in [[Australia]], and his [[PhD]] from the [[University of Queensland]] in Australia.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}}

He became a senior research scientist at [[NEC Corporation|NEC]] Research Institute.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}}

He was a senior research scientist at Google where he developed Google Desktop.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}}

Lawrence's professional service includes being [[program committee]] co-chair for WWW 2003, program committee vice chair for WWW 2002, co-chair for workshops at AAAI and WWW, a program committee member for conferences including WWW, CIKM, and NIPS, and a reviewer for many journals including ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'' and ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}}

Lawrence's research interests include information retrieval, digital libraries, and machine learning. He has published over 50 papers in these areas, including articles in ''Science'', ''Nature'', ''CACM'', and ''[[IEEE]] Computer''. He has been interviewed by over 100 news organizations including the ''[[New York Times]]'', the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[Washington Post]]'', [[Reuters]], [[Associated Press]], [[CNN]], [[MSNBC]], the [[BBC]], and [[NPR]]. Hundreds of articles about his research have appeared worldwide in over 10 different languages.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}}

==Awards and honors==
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* [[NEC Corporation|NEC]] Research Institute Excellence awards
* NEC Research Impact awards
* Queensland University of Technology university medal and award for excellence
* [[ATERB]] scholarship
* [[Australasian Performing Right Association|APRA]] priority scholarship,
* Technology NJ Internet Innovator award
* QEC and Telecom Australia Engineering prizes,
* Three prizes in the [[Australian Mathematics Competition]].

==External links==
*{{DBLP|name=Steve Lawrence}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20021203003747/http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/lawrence/ The Internet Archive's copy of Dr. Steve Lawrence's old NEC Research homepage]
* [http://ivyspring.com/steveLawrence/SteveLawrence.htm "Online or Invisible?: Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact"] -([[Open access (publishing)|open access]])
*[http://csxstatic.ist.psu.edu/people/team CiteSeer]

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