Astro Teller
Entrepreneur, computer scientist and author
Astro Teller is an American entrepreneur, computer scientist and writer who specializes in intelligent technology. He is the author of Sacred Cows.
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British Born 1970 in Cambridge, United Kingdom
About Astro Teller
Eric "Astro" Teller was born on 29 May 1970. He studied computer science at Stanford University, then completed a doctorate in artificial intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University, where he held a Hertz fellowship. As a graduate student he wrote a science fiction novel, Exegesis. He then spent nearly a decade in Pittsburgh, where he co-founded three companies. In 2010 he joined Google and has overseen Google[x], a moonshot factory for ambitious projects.