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Andy Rubin Christine Rosado Brianna Pelletier Stefne Jean
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Who is Andy Rubin? Andy Rubin is the co-founder of Android Inc.
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Early Life Born on June 22, 1946 in New Bedford, United states Grew up in Chappaqua, New York His father was a psychologist who than started a direct marketing business His father always had electronic products that he would sell so Andy was always around new electronics He was very into robots growing up
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Education Went to Utica College in New York from 1981-1986 Bachelor of Science degree in computer science
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Jobs Andy Rubin has had:
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Carl Zeiss AG As a robotics engineer from 1986-1989
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Rubin loved this job but on vacation in the Cayman Islands in 1989 he met a man named Bill Caswell who he helped out during the vacation(Caswell had been sleeping on a bench because his girlfriend had fought with him and kicked him out and Rubin offered him shelter) and therefore had offered him a job where he worked at Apple Inc
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Apple Inc. As a manufacturing engineer from 1989-1992
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Apple Coworkers at Apple actually gave Andy Rubin the nickname Android Rubin started off manufacturing phones but soon moved to the research at Apple
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General Magic As an engineer from 1992-1995 General Magic was an Apple spin-off where he participated in developing Magic Cap
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General Magic In 1990, Apple did a spin off to form a company called General Magic General Magic focuses on the development of handheld devices and different types of communication
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Artemis Research As an engineer from 1995-1999
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Artemis Research Some developers at General Magic and some ex-Apple coworkers set up Artemis Research Artemis Research became WebTV WebTV was eventually bought by Microsoft in 1997 It was an early attempt to combine the Internet with television
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After leaving Artemis Research he rented a store in Palo Alto California This store became his laboratory
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Danger Inc. As co-founder from 1999-2003
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Danger Inc. Danger Inc. was most known for the creation of the T-Mobile Sidekick The company was bought by Microsoft in 2008
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Android Inc. He co-founded Android in 2003 Android was then bought by Google in 2005
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Android Phones Android phones account for a third of the U.S. smartphone market as of today 4,000,000 android phones are being activated each day
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He also worked closely with Motorola to make sure the DROID would be popular
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Working with Google The former Android leader is in charge of one of Google's "moonshots," an effort to use robots to free humans from hard or dull work Rubin is in charge of Google’s latest project called moonshots Moonshots is an effort to use robots to do all the hard and dull work that humans don’t want to do This project has already created things like self driving cars, robots that do work, and Google Glass Google Glass is basically Google for your face They take phone calls Send texts Take photos and videos Show maps And stream the internet
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He is now currently working with Google and is Google’s Senior Vice President in charge of mobile However he recently left Google due to creative differences He has since paired up with Facebook although the project is unknown
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