Marc Davis
Partner Architect, Online Services Division at Microsoft
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Marc Davis's Overview
- Current
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- Partner Architect, Online Services Division at Microsoft
- Past
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- Chief Scientist at Invention Arts
- VP of ESP (Early Stage Products), Yahoo! Mobile at Yahoo!
- Chief Scientist, 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
- Recommendations
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11 people have recommended Marc
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Marc Davis' Summary
Marc Davis invents mobile, social, media, and personal data technologies that connect people, the web, and the world. With a twenty year career of technology research and development spanning the MIT Media Lab, Interval Research, UC Berkeley, Yahoo!, Invention Arts, and Microsoft, he has done pioneering work in context-aware computing, computer vision, mobile media metadata, social media, mobile and social advertising, and personal data technologies and applications. He has transformed his ideas into over 150 patent applications, as well as numerous research prototypes, products, and publications. Marc Davis is a Partner Architect at Microsoft working on the vision and technology strategy for Microsoft’s Online Services Division.
Before Microsoft, Marc Davis was Chief Scientist at Invention Arts, where he focused on new approaches to how people can better control, share, and benefit from their personal data. Before Invention Arts, Marc Davis was Chief Scientist and Vice President of Early Stage Products (ESP) for Yahoo! Mobile, where he worked on innovative products and platforms such as oneConnect, Social Pulse, the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS), and the vision demo for the future of Yahoo! shown at CES 2008. Marc Davis was also the Founding Director of Yahoo! Research Berkeley, where he and his teams developed ZoneTag and Zurfer (context-aware mobile photo upload, tagging, and browsing software), and TagMaps (a collective map of human attention created by analyzing millions of geocoded Flickr photos). Marc Davis served as an Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information where he directed Garage Cinema Research.
Marc Davis gives talks at leading conferences such as SXSW, Web 2.0 Expo, Telco 2.0, and Mobile 2.0, and his ideas and work have been featured in publications such as the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, BBC News, GigaOm, O'Reilly Radar, AllThingsD, SearchEngineLand, and ReadWriteWeb.
Specialties
Invention; Innovation; Social Media; Mobile Media; Media Metadata; Personal Data, Computational Media Production; Media Sharing and Reuse; Media Remixing; Context-Aware and Mobile Computing, Mobile Monetization; Social Monetization; Social Media Advertising and Marketing; 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' Experience
Partner Architect, Online Services Division
Microsoft
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry
August 2010 – Present (1 year 11 months)
Working on the vision and technology strategy for Microsoft's Online Services Division.
VP of ESP (Early Stage Products), Yahoo! Mobile
Yahoo!
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; 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.
Chief Scientist, Yahoo! Mobile
Yahoo!
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; yhoo; Internet industry
April 2008 – May 2009 (1 year 2 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.
Social Media Guru
Yahoo! Inc.
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; 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.
Founding Director
Yahoo! Research Berkeley
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; yhoo; Internet 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.
Assistant Professor
UC Berkeley School of Information
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
July 2002 – June 2006 (4 years)
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)
Doctoral Student and Research Assistant
MIT Media Laboratory
Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry
September 1990 – January 1995 (4 years 5 months)
Marc Davis' Skills & Expertise
Marc Davis' Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, Media Arts and Sciences
1990 – 1995
Activities and Societies: Co-Founder of the Narrative Intelligence Reading Group
Universität Konstanz
MA, Philosophy and Literary Theory
1984 – 1987
Wesleyan University
BA, College of Letters
1980 – 1984
Marc Davis' Additional Information
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Invention, Social Media, Mobile Media, Media Metadata, Mobile, Personal Data, Semantic Web, Computational Media Production, Media Sharing and Reuse, Media Remixing, Multimedia Computing, 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, Innovation
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