Google Wave: Who Is Behind It?
So, who invented Google Wave technology? Who is this genius?
In fact, there are two – and they are brothers!
Here’s the information the official Google Wave Press site gives:
Lars Rasmussen is a member of Google’s technical staff, based in the Sydney office, and with his brother Jens is co-founder of the Google Wave effort. In early 2003, the brothers co-founded a mapping start-up, Where 2 Technologies, which was acquired by Google in October of 2004. Lars joined Google and worked as one of the lead engineers in the team that turned this acquisition into Google Maps, now used by millions of people around the world. Lars holds a Ph.D. in theoretical computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has possibly the world’s least developed sense of direction, and consistently types faster than he can spell.
Stephanie Hannon, the lead product manager for Google Wave, is based in Google’s Sydney office. Prior to Sydney she worked in Google’s Zurich office, leading the product team for Google Maps for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and before this she was product manager for Gmail at Google in Mountain View, CA. Stephanie holds a B.S. Computer Systems Engineering and M.S.E.E. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Despite her eagerness to take on ever more life-threatening sports since she moved down under (one week kite surfing, the next week swimming with sharks), Steph has yet to get hurt (badly).
Nice venture…
Am so excited abt de ‘Google wave’
Congratz for de Wave team to bring in such a n idea n for all deir efforts..