Brian A McClendon was born on 1964 and is an American software executive, engineer, and inventor.
17 Facts About Brian McClendon
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Brian McClendon was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc.
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Keyhole itself was spun off from another company called Intrinsic Graphics, of which McClendon was a co-founder.
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Brian McClendon was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for strategic, technical, and managerial leadership resulting in widespread accurate and useful geographic information.
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Brian McClendon graduated from Lawrence High School in 1982 and from the University of Kansas in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering.
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Brian McClendon spent eight years with Silicon Graphics developing high-end workstation 3D graphics including GT, GTX, RealityEngine, and InfiniteReality, and then worked as an engineering director with @Home Network.
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Brian McClendon served as a board member and later joined the company as vice president of engineering.
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Brian McClendon was later promoted to vice president, overseeing the Geo team.
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Brian McClendon was instrumental in the creation of Google Santa Tracker.
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Brian McClendon left Google to join Uber in June 2015 to work on mapping and machine learning.
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In November, 2021, Brian McClendon joined Niantic as a senior vice president of augmented reality, research and mapping.
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In March 2017, Brian McClendon resigned his full-time role at Uber, though remaining an adviser, in order to return to his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas, indicating an interest in politics.
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Brian McClendon ran unopposed in the primary election and was selected as the Democratic candidate.
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Brian McClendon was defeated in the general election by Republican candidate Scott Schwab.
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Brian McClendon maintains close ties with his alma mater, the University of Kansas, serving on advisory boards for both the School of Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Brian McClendon currently serves as a research professor at the University of Kansas, having received an honorary doctorate in electrical engineering from the university in 2015.
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Brian McClendon holds 41 issued patents, including thirteen relating to KML, the XML-based language schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization in two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers.