Eric Schmidt

Person · Open Library

Works

27

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Film & TV

Acting · Falls Church, Virginia, USA

Eric Schmidt is an American businessman, best known as a former CEO of Google.

Known for

• The Thinking Game2025
• Silicon Valley — Self2014

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Austria

Active from

1955

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

84

Total plays

269

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,861x

2. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

   · 2004 · cited 44,346x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,548x

4. The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 26,092x

5. IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

   · 2014 · cited 24,523x

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Quotes

• “When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that’s a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant. You should look for information. We should get it exactly right and we should give it to you in your language and we should never be wrong. That’s our challenge.”
• “Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences...”
• “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
• “I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.”
• “Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.”
• “I fundamentally believe that disinformation becomes so easy to generate, because complexity overwhelms knowledge, that it's in people's interests, if you will, over the next decade, to build disinformation-generating systems. This is true for corporations, for marketing, for governments, and so forth." (Eric Schmidt in dialogue with Julian Assange, June 2011 c.f When Google Met Wikileaks, p. 174)”

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Key facts

Born

Eric Emerson Schmidt , ( 1955-04-27 ) April 27, 1955 (age 71) , Falls Church, Virginia , U.S.

Citizenship

United States Cyprus

Education

Princeton University ( BSE ) University of California, Berkeley ( MS , PhD )

Occupation

Businessman

Years active

1985–present

Title

Co-founder, Schmidt Futures Founder and chairman, Special Competitive Studies Project CEO, Relativity Space Limited partner, Washington Commanders ( NFL )

Spouse

Wendy Boyle ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 ) ​

Children

Sophie Schmidt Alison Schmidt

Fields

Computer engineering

Thesis

Controlling Large Software Development in a Distributed Environment (1982)

Doctoral advisor

Bob Fabry , Richard Fateman

Website

ericschmidt .com

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Eric

Family name

Schmidt

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Washington, D.C.

Spouse

Wendy Schmidt

Occupation

entrepreneur

Educated at

University of California, Berkeley

Employer

Apple Inc.

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Ellis Island Medal of Honor

Academic degree

doctorate

Field of work

software engineering

Official website

ericschmidt.com

Image

Eric E Schmidt, 2005 (looking left).jpg

Residence

Atherton

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