David Gedye

Current

• Group Manager of Photosynth at Microsoft

Past

• VP of Products at Seadragon
• Group Program Manager for Education Products at Microsoft
• CTO at Apex Learning

• Founder, Project Director at SETI@Home
• Director, Online Applications at Starwave
• Project Leader at Sun Microsystems

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Sydney

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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David Gedye’s Summary

Software development leader with large and small company experience. I love to build teams and products around surprising technologies.

David Gedye’s Specialties:

Imaging Technology, Education Technology, Distributed Computing using Volunteered Resources

David Gedye’s Experience

• Group Manager of Photosynth

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

  Seadragon was acquired by Microsoft in February 2006, and our whole team has moved to Microsoft's new Live Labs. Check out http://labs.live.com/photosynth for what I'm up to now.

• VP of Products

  Seadragon

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2005 — February 2006 (10 months)

• Group Program Manager for Education Products

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

• CTO

  Apex Learning

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

• Founder, Project Director

  SETI@Home

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Research industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years)

  SETI@home was, and I think remains, the largest computation ever performed. At its peak in 2002 500,000 people were providing nearly 100 teraflops of computation per second analysing radio signals from the Arecibo telescope. SETI@home created an entire new category of distributed computing, which we called "volunteer computing".

• Director, Online Applications

  Starwave

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  1994 — 1997 (3 years)

• Project Leader

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

  1988 — 1993 (5 years)

David Gedye’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  MS , Computer Science , 1986 — 1988

• University of Sydney

  BS Hons. , Computer Science , 1979 — 1983

Additional Information

David Gedye’s Websites:

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David Gedye’s Interests:

Photography, hiking, scrambling, snowshoeing

David Gedye’s Honors:

Finalist in Smithsonian Innovation Award 2001 for SETI@home

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