Partner at Invention Arts
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Partner at Invention Arts
- Past
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- Chief Scientist, Yahoo! Mobile at Yahoo!
- VP of ESP (Early Stage Products), Yahoo! Mobile at Yahoo!
- Social Media Guru at Yahoo! Inc.
- Founding Director at Yahoo! Research Berkeley
- Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley School of Information
- Chairman and Co-Founder at Amova, Inc.
- Member of the Research Staff and Project Coordinator at Interval Research Corporation
- Doctoral Student and Research Assistant at MIT Media Laboratory
- Education
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Universität Konstanz
- Wesleyan University
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Marc Davis’s Summary
Marc Davis, visionary technologist and inventor, is a founding partner of Invention Arts. With a distinguished career of technology research and development at the MIT Media Lab, Interval Research, UC Berkeley, and Yahoo!, Marc’s thought leadership has articulated—often over a decade beforehand—how people, the web, and the world will be connected. Marc and his teams have done pioneering research and development in digital video databases and remixing, automated media production, mobile media, social media, and mobile and social advertising. Marc has transformed his ideas into over 150 patent applications, as well as research prototypes and products.
Most recently, Marc was Chief Scientist and VP of Early Stage Products (ESP) for Yahoo! Mobile. Marc and his team worked on innovative products and platforms such as Social Pulse, the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS), and the vision demo for the future of Yahoo! shown at CES 2008. In 2005, Marc was the Founding Director of Yahoo! Research Berkeley, which developed: ZoneTag, a context-aware mobile photo tagger; TagMaps, a collective map of human attention derived from millions of tagged Flickr photos; Zurfer, a context-aware mobile photo browser; and Remixer, a web-based video remixing tool. From 2002 to 2006, Marc Davis served as Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information where he directed Garage Cinema Research. Marc lead a multi-year Mobile Media Metadata research project that pioneered context-aware mobile media uploading, tagging, sharing, and face and place recognition.
Marc Davis gives talks at leading conferences around the world such as Web 2.0, CES, CTIA, Telco 2.0, and ACM Mindtrek. His ideas and work have been featured in major publications such as New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, BBC News, New Scientist, ZDNet, TechCrunch, GigaOm, AllThingsD, and SearchEngineLand. Marc Davis earned his BA at Wesleyan University, his MA at the University of Konstanz, and his PhD at the MIT Media Lab.
Marc Davis’s Specialties:
Social Media; Mobile Media; Media Metadata; Computational Media Production; Media Sharing and Reuse; Media Remixing; Context-Aware and Mobile Computing, Mobile Monetization; Social Monetization; Social Media Advertising and Marketing; Social Media Monetization; User Data Management; Knowledge Representation; Human-Computer Interaction; Online Communications; Narrative Intelligence; New Media; Project-Based Learning; Sociotechnical Design Processes; Generative Conceptual Frameworks.
Marc Davis’s Experience
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Partner
Invention Arts
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
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Chief Scientist, Yahoo! Mobile
Yahoo!
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
April 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 4 months)
As Chief Scientist of Yahoo! Mobile, Marc Davis is focused on inventing and realizing the key technologies, platforms, and applications that will shape the future of mobile for billions of people around the world. His research encompasses the theory, design, and development of sociotechnical systems that leverage contextual metadata and the power of community to enable people around the world to produce, describe, share, and remix media, and to connect to each other in new ways.
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VP of ESP (Early Stage Products), Yahoo! Mobile
Yahoo!
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
March 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 5 months)
As VP of ESP (Early Stage Products) in Yahoo! Mobile, Marc and his team invent and help realize the future of mobile, social, media, monetization, and platforms. ESP focuses on strategy, intellectual property, and early stage prototypes. ESP has been involved in innovative products from Yahoo! Mobile such as oneConnect, which reinvents mobile communications by aggregating a user's social networks and communications tools into a socially connected address book. ESP was also a key contributor to the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) and the vision demo for the future of Yahoo! shown at CES 2008.
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Social Media Guru
Yahoo! Inc.
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
July 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Marc Davis is Social Media Guru at Yahoo! Inc. His work focuses on creating the technology and applications that will enable daily media consumers to become daily media producers. As Social Media Guru, Marc Davis connects various groups at Yahoo! to formulate strategy and to take action to invent and realize the future of social media and mobile media.
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Founding Director
Yahoo! Research Berkeley
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; YHOO; Research industry)
July 2005 — June 2006 (1 year )
Yahoo! Research Berkeley is a new research partnership between Yahoo! Inc. and the University of California at Berkeley to explore and invent social media and mobile media technology and applications that will enable people to create, describe, find, share, and remix media on the web. Yahoo! Research Berkeley combines world-class media technology and design research with the scale and impact of the world's leading internet media company. We are bringing together world-renowned experts in the fields of media technology, social software, context-aware computing, mobile computing, and user and design research who will shape the future of internet media. In support of these goals, Yahoo! Research Berkeley and the University of California at Berkeley have created an innovative corporate-academic collaboration for research and development.
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Assistant Professor
UC Berkeley School of Information
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
July 2002 — June 2006 (4 years )
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Chairman and Co-Founder
Amova, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
December 1998 — June 2002 (3 years 7 months)
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Member of the Research Staff and Project Coordinator
Interval Research Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1993 — December 1998 (5 years 7 months)
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Doctoral Student and Research Assistant
MIT Media Laboratory
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1990 — January 1995 (4 years 5 months)
Marc Davis’s Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD , Media Arts and Sciences , 1990 — 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- Co-Founder of the Narrative Intelligence Reading Group
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Universität Konstanz
MA , Philosophy and Literary Theory , 1984 — 1987
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Wesleyan University
BA , College of Letters , 1980 — 1984
