Orkut Büyükkökten is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking service called Orkut.

He developed Orkut as an independent project while working at Google.

While previously working for Affinity Engines, he had developed a similar system, InCircle, intended for use by university alumni groups. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming that Buyukkokten and Google based Orkut on InCircle code. The allegation is based on the presence of 9 identical bugs in Orkut that also existed in InCircle. Google and Orkut have since settled the lawsuit; the terms have not been disclosed.

Originally from the Turkish Konya, Buyukkokten obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research at Stanford focused on Web search and efficient PDA.

Since the decision of the California Supreme Court to grant equal recognition to same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples, Buyukkokten has become engaged to boyfriend Derek Holbrook.^[1]

References

Research publications

• Exploiting Geographical Location Information of Web Pages
• Focused Web Searching with PDAs
• Power Browser: Efficient Web Browsing for PDAs
• Efficient Query Subscription Processing in a Multicast Environment
• Research paper: Accordion Summarization for End-Game Browsing on PDAs and Cellular Phones
• Efficient Web Form Entry on PDAs
• Seeing the Whole in Parts: Text Summarization for Web Browsing on Handheld Devices
• Power Email: Efficient Email Entry on Pen-Based Handheld Devices

External links

• Stanford home page
• Orkut's Orkut profile (Needs registration)

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