In 1996, he co-founded Inktomi Corporation with a Berkeley grad
student
based on their research prototype, and helped lead it onto the Nasdaq
100
before it was bought by Yahoo! in March 2003.
In 2000, he founded the Federal Search Foundation, a 501-3(c)
organization focused on improving consumer access to government
information. Working with
President Clinton, Dr. Brewer helped to create FirstGov.gov, the official portal
of
the Federal government, which launched in September 2000.
He received an MS and Ph.D. in EECS from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS in EECS from UC
Berkeley. He was named a "Global Leader
for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, by the Industry
Standard as the "most influential person on the architecture of the
Internet", by InfoWorld
as one of their top ten innovators, by Technology Review as one
of
the top 100 most influential people for the 21st century (the "TR100"),
and
by Forbes as one of their 12 "e-mavericks", for which he
appeared
on the cover.