Name Astro Teller Notable awards Hertz Foundation | Role Scientist | |
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Residence Palo Alto, CA, United States Institutions Stanford UniversityGoogle X Alma mater Stanford UniversityCarnegie Mellon University Thesis Algorithm evolution with internal reinforcement for signal understanding (1998) Spouse Danielle Teller (2012 - Present) Books Exegesis, Hello, Alice. e-mail Roman Similar People Manuela M Veloso, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, David Drummond | ||
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Astro Teller (born Eric Teller; 29 May 1970) is an entrepreneur, scientist, and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology.
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- Astro Teller Google Director of New Projects on Innovation Singularity University
- Astro Teller Interview Astro Tellers Top 10 Rules For Success
- Early life and education
- Entrepreneur
- Author
- References
Early life and education
Teller was born in Cambridge, England and raised in Evanston, Illinois. He is the son of Paul Teller, who was an instructor in the philosophy of science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Chantal DeSoto, a buyer and clothing designer for Sears who later became a teacher of gifted children. His grandparents include both French economist and mathematician Gérard Debreu and Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist Edward Teller. He received the nickname "Astro" after high school friends compared his flat-top haircut to AstroTurf, and reportedly had the image of cartoon dog Astro from The Jetsons painted on his car door in college.
Teller holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Stanford University, Masters of Science in symbolic computation (symbolic and heuristic computation), also from Stanford University, and a PhD in artificial intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a recipient of a Hertz fellowship. After working as a teacher at Stanford University, he became a business executive.
Entrepreneur
Teller was the co-founder and chairman of BodyMedia, makers of the "BodyMedia FIT", "Bodybugg", and the "Sensewear" armbands (wearable devices that measure sleep, perspiration, motion, and calories burned).
He is also co-founder, director, and former CEO of Cerebellum Capital.
In May 2001, Teller was featured on NPR's All Things Considered, discussing how the good economy has shaped the attitudes of 30-year-olds towards their jobs.
He has lectured at the TEDMED Conference (2003 and 2004), South By Southwest (2013), and ideaCity (2004).
In 2008, Teller appeared as a political commentator on the national French television station France24.
Teller is the co-founder and co-host of the Solve for X annual event and internet community.
Since 2010, Teller has been directing Google X laboratories. Projects at Google X include Google Glass, Google driverless car, Google Contact Lens, and Project Loon. Google X spun its project called Genie out into a stand-alone business in 2012. Teller gave a TED Talk at TED2016 on the importance of failure in Google X's approach to pioneering new projects.
On 18 October 2016 it was announced that Teller would temporarily be in charge of Google X's Project Wing while the search for its next permanent leader was underway.
Author
Teller's novel, Exegesis, was published in 1997. It was translated into Dutch, Japanese, Danish, German, Italian, and Greeklish.
A second novel, Among These Savage Thoughts, was published in 2006. An experimental novel, it deals with the protagonist's journey to reinvent himself in the imaginary mountain society of Karabas.
His third book, a non-fiction work examining society's attitudes about marriage and divorce entitled Sacred Cows, was published by Diversion Books in 2014 and he gave a 2014 TEDxBoston talk on the book.