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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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