Paul Flaherty

Paul Andrew Flaherty (March 14, 1964 - March 16, 2006) was an American computer scientist, born in Milwaukee and raised in Minnesota, Flaherty earned a doctorate in electrical engineering in 1994 from Stanford University. He was a renowned specialist in internet protocols and the inventor of the AltaVista search engine. At age 42, Flaherty died of a heart attack at his home in Belmont, California.