Louis Monier

Louis Monier (born March 21, 1956) is a cofounder of the defunct Internet search engine AltaVista together with Paul Flaherty and Michael Burrows.

He left Google in August 2007 to join Cuil, a search engine startup.

One month after the launch, he left Cuil, citing differences with the CEO.

Monier received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Paris XI, France[5] in 1980 and worked at Carnegie Mellon University, Xerox PARC, and DEC's Western Research Laboratory.

Louis was the Chief Scientist of Proximic until July 2013,[6] and has founded a health technology company, Kyron.