Gary William Flake

Gary William Flake (born 1966 or 1967)[1] was most recently the CTO of Search at Salesforce.com, which bought and shuttered Clipboard, Inc.,[2] of which he was the founder and CEO.

Author of the book, The Computational Beauty of Nature (MIT 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.

Research Labs, corporate research-and-development activities, and company-wide innovation efforts, and eventually became a vice-president.

[5] 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.