Sep Kamvar is an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he directs the Social Computing Group. Prior to MIT, Sep was the engineering lead for personalization at Google and a consulting professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to that, he was founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired by Google in 2003.
Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.
Sep received his Ph.D. in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics from Stanford University and his A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton University.
Small Business, The Neighborhood and Smart Cities
What do children in a classroom and newfound small businesses have in common? Sep Kamvar of MIT Media Lab and GoDaddy VP Rene Reinsberg explain how smarter, more scientific observation can help people and companies grow.
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