Marc Davis

Yahoo! labs

Marc Davis is Social Media Guru at Yahoo! Inc. His work focuses on creating the technology and applications that will enable daily media consumers to become daily media producers. His research encompasses the theory, design, and development of digital media systems that leverage contextual metadata and the power of community to enable people to produce, describe, share, and remix media. From 2002 to 2006, Marc Davis served as Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information where he directed Garage Cinema Research and co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for New Media. At Garage Cinema Research, Marc Davis and his students developed and deployed Mobile Media Metadata (MMM) prototypes for context-aware mobile media tagging and sharing, and technologies for video capture, tagging, and remixing. In 2005, Marc Davis worked with Yahoo! Inc. and UC Berkeley to create Yahoo! Research Berkeley where he served as Founding Director. In 2006, Marc Davis joined Yahoo! as Social Media Guru to formulate strategy and take action to invent and realize the future of social media and mobile media. Marc Davis earned his B.A. in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, his M.A. in Literary Theory and Philosophy at the University of Konstanz in Germany, and his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory.