CHI 2016 Tuesday Wednesday Morning Plenary
Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, in conversation with Terry Winograd, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

Marissa Mayer, President & CEO, Yahoo
Marissa Mayer is President & CEO of Yahoo. Since joining Yahoo in 2012, Marissa has led Yahoo’s focus as a guide to digital information discovery by informing, connecting, and entertaining users through search, communications, and digital content products. Marissa also helmed Yahoo’s efforts across mobile, video, native, and social to transform Yahoo’s digital advertising strategy. Under her leadership, Yahoo has grown to serve over 1 billion users worldwide, with over 600 million users now on mobile.

Prior to Yahoo, Marissa was Vice President of Local, Maps, and Location Services at Google. During her 13 years at Google, Marissa held numerous positions, including engineer, designer, product manager, and executive, and launched more than 100 well-known features and products. She played an instrumental role in Google search, leading the product management effort for more than 10 years. Previously, Marissa worked at the UBS research lab in Zurich, Switzerland and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. She graduated with honors from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and a MS in Computer Science.

Marissa serves on the board of directors of Walmart. She is also on the board of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Ballet.


Terry Winograd, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, Stanford University

Terry Winograd’s focus is on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design and the design of technologies for development. He founded and directed the teaching programs and HCI research in the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group. He was a founding faculty member of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (the “d.school”) and on the faculty of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL).

Winograd was a founding member and past president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. He is on a number of journal editorial boards, including Human Computer Interaction, ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, and Informatica. He has written or co-authored five books since 1972, his most recent: Bringing Design to Software. He has advised a number of companies started by his students, including Google. In 2011 he received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award.


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Recorded on May 11th, 2016 at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, CA, USA