Spouse(s) Irene Au | Name Bradley Horowitz Role Entrepreneur | |
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Full Name Bradley Joseph Horowitz Occupation VP Streams, Photos, and Sharing Parents Leslie Horowitz, Ralph "Rocky" Horowitz Similar People Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Jerry Yang, Eric Schmidt, David Drummond Profiles | ||
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Bradley Joseph Horowitz is an American entrepreneur and internet executive. He is VP Streams, Photos and Sharing at Google.
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- Eckhart tolle in conversation with bradley horowitz talks at google
- In conversation with bradley horowitz google leweb 14 paris
- Early life and education
- Career
- Entrepreneurship
- Personal life
- References
In conversation with bradley horowitz google leweb 14 paris
Early life and education
Horowitz was born in Dearborn, Michigan.
Horowitz received a B.A. in computer science from the University of Michigan in 1989.
He pursued his graduate studies at the MIT Media Lab, in the Vision and Modeling Group, under Professor Sandy Pentland. He received a Masters in Media Science in 1991, and subsequently entered the PhD program. He dropped out of the PhD program in 1993 to co-found Virage. Horowitz's academic work focused on the intersection of computer vision, image processing and computer graphics. He has published numerous refereed papers in academic journals, including work on recovery of non-rigid structure from motion and fractal image compression, and has been awarded more than a dozen patents.
Career
Horowitz joined Yahoo in 2004 as Director of Media Search. Eventually he began the internal Hack Yahoo program, most notable for "Hack Days". Hack Days eventually morphed into the public facing Open Hack Days, including Beck's appearance at Yahoo's Sunnyvale campus in 2006. Eventually he was promoted to Vice President of Advanced Development, and his team created both Yahoo Research Berkeley and the Brickhouse incubator. Horowitz is also known for sponsoring numerous "Web 2.0" acquisitions into Yahoo including Flickr, MyBlogLog and Jumpcut.
Horowitz left Yahoo and joined Google in 2008 as vice president of product for consumer applications, eventually leading the product management organizations for Gmail, Google+ Docs, Calendar, Google Talk, Google Voice, Picasa, Orkut and Blogger. In 2011, Horowitz and Vic Gundotra conceived of and led the Google+ Project. In March 2015, he became the lead for the Google Photos and Streams products.
Bradley is an avid angel investor, and has invested in startups such as Dropcam, Slack Technologies, Honor and Change.org. He is an advisor to the behavioral analytics startup jobFig, and a board member of Issuu, a digital publishing platform.
He serves on the Visiting Committee of the MIT Media Lab.
Entrepreneurship
Horowitz was CTO and a co-founder (with Jeff Bach, Chiao-fe Shu and Ramesh Jain) of Virage, Inc. Virage technology "watched, read and listened to raw video", extracting metadata that allowed for detailed semantic-based indexing of the video content. Virage went public on the NASDAQ in 2000, and was acquired by Autonomy in 2003. He acquired half a dozen patents in the field of media analysis and indexing while at Virage.
Personal life
Horowitz is married to designer Irene Au, who has held executive roles with Netscape, Yahoo, Google and Udacity.