Marissa Mayer
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Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer is Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google, leading the product management efforts on Google's search products: web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more.
Formerly director of Consumer Web Products and the technical lead for the user-interface team, she has spearheaded almost every user-interface change to Google's website in the past several years. She has also internationalized Google's interface and led much of the UI design and development effort, including establishing user testing. Several patents have been filed on her work.
At the same time, Marissa has taught introductory computer programming classes at Stanford University to over 3,000 students and has received both the Centennial teaching award and the Forsythe award for outstanding contribution to undergraduate education. Before joining Google in 1999, Marissa worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland, and SRI International in Menlo Park, CA.
Marissa received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford.
Last updated: March 13, 2009.
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Marissa Mayer
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| Born | May 30, 1975 Wausau, Wisconsin United States North America |
| Residence | San Francisco, Palo Alto |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Occupation | Vice President of Location and Local Services, Google[1] Computer programming instructor, Stanford University |
| Employer | Google Stanford University |
| Board member of | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet, and Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum [2] |
| Spouse | Zachary Bogue (2009–present)[3] |
Marissa Ann Mayer (born on May 30, 1975) is Vice President of Location and Local Services[4] at Google. She has become one of the public faces of Google, providing a number of press interviews and appearing at events frequently to speak on behalf of the company.[5][6]
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Education and career
After graduating from Wausau West High School in 1993,[7] Mayer was one of two delegates from Wisconsin selected by the Governor of that state to attend the National Youth Science Camp in West Virginia.
Mayer received her B.S. in symbolic systems, graduating with honors, and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence. In 2009, the Illinois Institute of Technology granted Mayer an honoris causa doctorate degree honoring her pathfinding work in the field of search.[8]
Mayer was the first female engineer hired at Google and one of their first 20 employees, joining the company in June 1999. Prior to joining Google, Mayer worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland, and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.[9]
User interface (UI) and design work
Mayer has notable public involvement with Google Search and Gmail, and can be considered significantly responsible for the success of these UIs[citation needed]. Fortune magazine lists her as one of the 50 most powerful women in the world and the youngest woman ever to make the list.[10]
Recognition
Mayer has been named as one of Glamour Magazine’s 2009 Women of the Year.[11]
References
- ^ Womack, Brian (October 12, 2010). "Google Executive Marissa Mayer Takes New Role in Location, Local Services". bloomberg.com. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-12/google-s-marissa-mayer-takes-new-role-overseeing-location-local-services.html. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
- ^ "Walmart Board of Directors Nominates New Candidate - Marissa Mayer to stand for election at Walmart’s 2012 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting". Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.. April 16, 2012. http://investors.walmartstores.com/phoenix.zhtml?ID=1683310&c=112761&highlight=&p=irol-newsArticle. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
- ^ Vogue: The Bride Wore Snowflakes
- ^ "At Google, Mayer Takes a New Job". The New York Times. October 12, 2010. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/google-search-executive-marissa-mayer-takes-a-new-job/.
- ^ Mayer, M. (2008). "Innovation, design, and simplicity at google". ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 40: 199. doi:10.1145/1352322.1352205.
- ^ Holson, Laura (March 1, 2009). "Putting a Bolder Face on Google". The New York Times: p. BU-1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html?th&emc=th.
- ^ "Portraits of Success - Wausau West High School". Wausau School District, Wausau West High School. http://www.wausau.k12.wi.us/departments/communityrelations/portraits/WausauWest.htm. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
- ^ IIT (2009-03-25). "50. Marissa Mayer". Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Media Room. http://www.iit.edu/departments/pr/mediaroom/article_viewer_db.php?articleID=360. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
- ^ Drescher, Io (2010-06-15). "Meet Marissa Mayer". Silicon Valley Curious. http://www.siliconvalleycurious.com/2010/06/meet-marissa-mayer/. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
- ^ "50 Most Powerful Women". CNN. September 30, 2010. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1009/gallery.most_powerful_women.fortune/42.html.
- ^ Rao, Leena (November 6, 2009). "Marissa Mayer Chosen As A Glamour Magazine Woman Of The Year". TechCrunch.com. http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/marissa-mayer-gets-a-little-love-from-glamour-magazine/. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Marissa Mayer on Charlie Rose
- Marissa Mayer at the Internet Movie Database
- Marissa Mayer at the Notable Names Database
- "The adventures of Marissa" February 27, 2008 in San Francisco Magazine.
- Video-Interview February 2007 (English, German intro, German subtitles)
- "Inside Google's New-Product Process" June 30, 2006 in Business Week Online.
- "Managing Google's Idea Factory" October 3, 2005 in Business Week Online.
- Good Experience interview October 15, 2002
- Marissa Mayer At Le Web: The (Almost) Complete Interview December 10, 2008 at techcrunch.com
- Digg Dialogg: Marissa Mayer July 30, 2009 at digg.com
- Marissa Mayer On 'Twitchy' Google, Her Cell Phone Number, And Maps May 25, 2011 in HuffPost Tech
- Cyberposium 12: Marissa Mayer Keynote Video
- Innovation, Sharing and Dreams, Marissa Mayer speaking at Stanford
- Google I/O '08 Keynote by Marissa Mayer
- cover story in the April 2012 issue of IEEE Spectrum (archived from the original on April 06, 2012)
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