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| Marissa Mayer President and CEO of Yahoo! Previously, she was a long-time executive and key spokesperson for Google. Mayer was ranked number 8 on the list of America's most powerful businesswomen of 2013 by Fortune magazine.
“Technology is all about talent. It is about
getting the right people with the great ideas and energizing them into the company”. Merissa Mayer (WITI’s 2011 - Women
Powering Technology Summit).
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Generation Y grew up with technology and rely on it to perform their jobs better. Armed with BlackBerrys, laptops, cellphones and other gadgets, Generation Y is plugged-in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
This generation prefers to communicate through e-mail and text messaging rather than face-to-face contact and prefers webinars and online technology to traditional lecture-based presentations.
Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer, VP, Google
Marissa Mayer at Stanford University
An Evening with Marissa Mayer
Davos 2013 - Insight, An Idea with Marissa
Keynote Address with Marissa
Intelligence has never been this adorable: Marissa Mayer, the sexy, hyperactive, geeky Vice-President of Search Product and User Experience at Google. Her Googliness was at Stanford University, giving her insightful take on creativity, followed by the usual Q&A. She's really the girl of the millenium.
A favorite CEO is tough to pick, there are so many things to consider – leadership style, inspirational potential, vision, effectiveness, kindness, ideas... “Yahoo has a strong culture…I wanted to find a way to amplify it. That is how you find the energy. You can harness that into innovation and say if we have people and they are excited about what they’re working on every day…you can take that energy around culture and find fun ways to apply it to engage users.” Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo.
Engineers
design materials, structures, and systems while considering the limitations
imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.
The
word engineer is derived from the Latin roots ingeniare ("to contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").
The
work of engineers forms the link between scientific discoveries and their
subsequent applications to human needs and quality of life.
In short, engineers are versatile
minds who create links between science, technology, and society.
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, and methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a pre-existing solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function.
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, and methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a pre-existing solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function.
A society, or a human society, is a group of people involved with each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members. In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification and/or dominance patterns in subgroups.
Internet
History of the Internet
"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file sharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
(Number of viewers - > 3,005,892 (December, 2013))
The Power of the Internet
Michael R. Nelson
What is the Internet?
Internet
History of the Internet
"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file sharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
(Number of viewers - > 3,005,892 (December, 2013))
The Power of the Internet
Michael R. Nelson
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve several billion users worldwide.
It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies.
The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertextdocuments of the World Wide Web (WWW), the infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer networks.
Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are being reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol television (IPTV).
Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking.
Online shopping has boomed both for major retail outlets and small artisans and traders.
Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries.
The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for.
Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers
Marissa Mayer
Marissa Ann Mayer is President and CEO of
Yahoo!. Previously, she was a long-time executive and key spokesperson for
Google. Mayer was ranked number 8 on the list of America's most powerful
businesswomen of 2013 by Fortune magazine. Wikipedia
Born: May 30, 1975 (age
38), Wausau, Wisconsin, United States
Spouse: Zachary Bogue (m. 2009)
Education: Stanford University (1999), Stanford University (1997),Wausau West High School (1993)
Parents: Michael Mayer, Margaret MayerOthers
Leadership
Internet
Millennials
Beauty and Personality
Powerful Communication
Facts about Yahoo! Inc.
Yahoo!
Inc. is
an American multinational Internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California.
It is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News,Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website.
It is one of the most popular sites in the
United States.
According
to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month.
Yahoo
itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month
in more than 30 languages.”
Yahoo
was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in
January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. On July 16, 2012, former Google executive Marissa Mayer was named as Yahoo CEO and President,
effective July 17, 2012.
According
to comScore,
Yahoo during July 2013 surpassed Google on the number of United States
visitors to its Web sites for the first time since May 2011, set at 196 million
United States visitors, having increased by 21 percent in a year. 
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Internet
What is the Internet?
The Internet is a global
system of interconnected computer networks that use the
standard Internet protocol
suite (TCP/IP) to serve several billion users
worldwide.
It is a network of
networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic,
business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by
a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking
technologies.
The Internet carries an
extensive range of information resources and services, such as the
inter-linked hypertextdocuments of
the World Wide Web (WWW),
the infrastructure to
support email, and peer-to-peer networks.
Most traditional
communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are being
reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such
as voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet
Protocol television (IPTV).
Newspaper, book and other
print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped
into blogging and web feeds.
The Internet has enabled and
accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking. Online shopping has boomed both for major
retail outlets and small artisans and
traders. Business-to-business and financial services on
the Internet affect supply chains across
entire industries.
The origins of the Internet
reach back to research commissioned by the United States
government in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant
communication via computer networks. While this work, together with work in the
United Kingdom and France, led to important precursor networks, they were not
the Internet. There is no consensus on the exact date when the modern Internet
came into being, but sometime in the early to mid-1980s is considered
reasonable.
The communications infrastructure of the Internet
consists of its hardware components and a system of software layers that
control various aspects of the architecture.
While the hardware can often be used to support
other software systems, it is the design and the rigorous standardization
process of the software architecture that characterizes the Internet and
provides the foundation for its scalability and success.
The Internet is a globally distributed network comprising
many voluntarily interconnected autonomous networks. It operates without a
central governing body.
The technical underpinning
and standardization of the Internet's core protocols (IPv4 and IPv6)
is an activity of the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of
loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by
contributing technical expertise.
Modern Uses
The Internet allows greater
flexibility in working hours and location, especially with the spread of
unmetered high-speed connections. The Internet can be accessed almost anywhere
by numerous means, including through mobile Internet
devices. Mobile phones, datacards, handheld game
consoles and cellular routers allow users to connect
to the Internetwirelessly. Within the limitations imposed by
small screens and other limited facilities of such pocket-sized devices, the
services of the Internet, including email and the web, may be available.
Service providers may restrict the services offered and mobile data charges may
be significantly higher than other access methods.
Educational material at all
levels from pre-school to post-doctoral is available from websites. Examples
range from CBeebies, through school and high-school
revision guides andvirtual universities,
to access to top-end scholarly literature through the likes of Google Scholar. For distance education,
help with homework and other assignments,
self-guided learning, whiling away spare time, or just looking up more detail
on an interesting fact, it has never been easier for people to access
educational information at any level from anywhere. The Internet in general and
the World Wide Web in
particular are important enablers of both formal and informal education.
The low cost and nearly
instantaneous sharing of ideas, knowledge, and skills has made collaborative work dramatically easier,
with the help of collaborative
software. Not only can a group cheaply communicate and share ideas
but the wide reach of the Internet allows such groups more easily to form. An
example of this is the free software
movement, which has produced, among other things, Linux, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice.org. Internet chat, whether using
an IRC chat room, an instant messaging system, or a social networkingwebsite, allows colleagues to
stay in touch in a very convenient way while working at their computers during
the day. Messages can be exchanged even more quickly and conveniently than via
email. These systems may allow files to be exchanged, drawings and images to be
shared, or voice and video contact between team members.
Content management systems
allow collaborating teams to work on shared sets of documents simultaneously
without accidentally destroying each other's work. Business and project teams
can share calendars as well as documents and other information. Such
collaboration occurs in a wide variety of areas including scientific research,
software development, conference planning, political activism and creative
writing. Social and political collaboration is also becoming more widespread as
both Internet access and computer literacy spread.
The Internet allows computer
users to remotely access other computers and information stores easily,
wherever they may be. They may do this with or without computer security, i.e. authentication and
encryption technologies, depending on the requirements. This is encouraging new
ways of working from home, collaboration and information sharing in many
industries. An accountant sitting at home can audit the
books of a company based in another country, on a server situated
in a third country that is remotely maintained by IT specialists in a fourth.
These accounts could have been created by home-working bookkeepers, in other
remote locations, based on information emailed to them from offices all over
the world. Some of these things were possible before the widespread use of the
Internet, but the cost of private leased lines would have made many of them
infeasible in practice. An office worker away from their desk, perhaps on the
other side of the world on a business trip or a holiday, can access their
emails, access their data using cloud computing, or open a remote desktop session
into their office PC using a secure Virtual Private
Network (VPN) connection on the Internet. This can give the
worker complete access to all of their normal files and data, including email
and other applications, while away from the office. It has been referred to
among system administrators as
the Virtual Private Nightmare,because it extends the secure perimeter of a
corporate network into remote locations and its employees' homes.
