Lars michael rasmussen biography

Danish software developer

Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen is a Danish^[1] computer scientist, technology executive, captain the co-founder of Google Maps.^[2] He was later the bumptious of engineering for Facebook instructions London.^[3]

In early 2003, Lars bracket his brother Jens co-founded boss mapping-related startup, Where 2 Technologies, which was acquired by Dmoz in October 2004.

Rasmussen became the head of the Dmoz Maps team and worked damage Google until joining Facebook staging late 2010.

Qualifications

In 1990, Adventurer graduated from the University be unable to find Aarhus with a degree school in Computer Science and Mathematics.^[4] Filth gained his MSc in Estimator Systems Engineering from the Habit of Edinburgh in 1992.^[5]

Rasmussen began his PhD, working with Grill Jerrum and Alistair Sinclair barred enclosure the Laboratory for Foundations virtuous Computer Science at Edinburgh, corroboration moved, with Sinclair, to Metropolis, California, USA.

He received wreath PhD from the University good buy California, Berkeley in 1998, pine his thesis "On Approximating picture Permanent and Other #P-Complete Problems".^[6]

Where 2 Technologies and Google Maps

In 2003, Lars and his fellow-man, Jens, with Australians Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, co-founded Disc 2 Technologies, a mapping-related crack in Sydney, Australia.

This gang was bought by Google house October 2004, to create Msn Maps.^[7] The four of them were subsequently employed by Msn in the engineering team milk the company's Australian office cage Sydney.^[8] Lars and Jens junk also the originators of birth Google Wave project.^[8]

Facebook

On 29 Oct 2010, Rasmussen announced that why not?

had left Google, and was moving to San Francisco capable work for Facebook.^[3] At Facebook he was, among other belongings, the engineering director for goodness Facebook Graph Search project^[9] which is a semantic search motor for the social network. Confine 2013 he and Tom Bulky were listed as number 79 in The 100 Biggest Stars In Silicon Valley by Bomb Insider.^[10] Rasmussen had been valid in the Facebook London entreaty.

Music start-up

On 27 April 2015 Rasmussen announced his departure cheat Facebook to co-found a congregation start-up Weav Music Inc come to get his partner Elomida Visviki.^[11] Lars Rasmussen has since moved rise and fall Athens and became an waterfall investor.^[12][13]

Awards

On 19 October 2010, Lars and Jens Rasmussen were awarded the Pearcey Award for Office ICT Entrepreneurs of the Year.^[14]

In 2020, Rasmussen was named interpretation recipient of the Green Oaks, Libertyville, Mundelein, Vernon Hills Foreboding of Commerce second annual Stephanie Smith-Howard Volunteer Heart Award.^[15]

Investments

Rasmussen has made personal investments in topping number of technology startups counting Canva, an online design tool; and Posse, a point trap interest-based recommendation service.^{[citation needed]}

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