Jeff Holden is Uber’s Chief Product Officer (since early 2014), where he focuses on future disruption threats and
relevant paradigm shifts. Jeff founded the Advanced Technology Group that developed Uber’s self-driving technology and is currently building Uber’s AI Lab.
Prior to Uber, he was the Senior Vice President of Product Management at Groupon (2011-2014), and before Groupon, Jeff was the co-founder and CEO of Pelago (2006-2011), whose flagship product, Whrrl, was designed to help people escape their social rut and discover new things in their cities. Previous to this, Jeff was at Amazon.com (1997-2006). For the latter half of his tenure there, he was SVP of Consumer Applications, Worldwide. He was responsible for the worldwide consumer website experience, including personalization, ordering, community, search, automated merchandising and online traffic (Associates, SEM/SEO). One of his proudest accomplishments during this period was leading the development of Amazon Prime. Earlier at Amazon, Jeff led the development of Amazon’s supply chain technology, evolving it from a script and a modem to the architecture still largely in place today.
Prior to Amazon, he worked at D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. in New York from 1992 to 1997, where he joined fresh out of school as a software engineer working with Jeff Bezos to develop Shaw’s third-market strategy. Jeff attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1986-1991, where he earned a BS and MS in Computer Science.
Chritian Lander, author of the widely popular blog and bookStuff White People Like will be giving a free talk at CMU on Tuesday.
If you haven’t checked it out before – Stuff White People Like – is a list of things that has been called the preppie handbook for today’s generation. It is fascinating and often totally hilarious.
I think this will be an interesting talk to hear about how a blog became so successful so quickly.
Christian Lander Author of Stuff White People Like
will Speak at Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
McConomy Auditorium
Doors open at 6:40pm, presentation starts at 7pm
Free and Open to the Public
On Thursday, September 23 there will be a photo shoot for the 2nd Pittsburgh Gigapanorama – you are invited to participate. The details for Thursday are available here. For the whole story about the project keep reading.
Gigapana-What? I promise this is not a scary disease or some fancy name for bed bug infestation – a gigopanorama is a giant panoramic photo. In most basic terms – lots of digital photos are stitched together to create a large panoramic photo. You can learn more about these photos and the technology behind the giga pan photos at Gigapan.org. Carnegie Mellon and Pittsburgh based DeepLocal are key partners in this project. Gigapan.org also has a huge gallery of other amazing photos to check out.
The First Pittsburgh Gigapanorama was created in October, 2009 from the roof of the US steel building. You can check out the photo here. The GigaPan.org website lets you navigate and zoom in on different parts of the photo. There is also an actual print out of this photo that has been displayed around the city – I had a chance to see it earlier this summer at the Sprout Fund Summer Social. It is a HUGE banner with amazing detail of the city. Continue reading →
Here is the list of things we talked abbout on WDVE this morning. You can hear our weekend picks most Friday mornings at 6:45 on 102.5FM.
Links
Whatever It Takes –coming this fall – a gallery show of Pittsburgh sports memorabilia – share your photos of Pittsburgh sports t-shirts, tattoos and more. Read more about the project on the Post-Gazette blog here.
PSAMP – Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies – check out the Great Moments in Unlicensed Pittsburgh Sports Merch posts here
Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:
Great Lakes Urban Exchange Conference 2010 – Urban Laboratories – Join other city lovers to share ideas and discuss issues. This years conference is in Cleveland – July 15-17, 2010. We were lucky enough to attend last years conference in Milwaukee and would highly recommend this to anyone interested in urban issues of mid-west cities
Miller Gallery now has an online Store – The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University has just launched an online store. Through the magic of the internet you can now purchase past catalogs, books, post cards, t-shirts and other items from exhibits at the gallery. Check out the Yes Men activity book – and if you haven't seen the movie The Yes Men – add that to your cart too. There are a number of books here that I am adding to my reading list.
