Urs Hölzle, 1964-, computer scientist. Born in Zurich, studied Information Technology at the Federal Institute for Technology in Zurich. In 1988, won a Fulbright scholarship to Stanford University, where he studied programming languages and their implementation, gaining a Ph.D in 1994. He was one of the pioneers of tehcniques used in most Java compilers. After holding the post of associate professor of computer science at the Universitiy of California, Santa Barbara, he joined Google, and as its first vice president of engineering he developed both its software and hardware infrastructure.