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| net_worth = US$380 million〔http://www.forbes.com/profile/marissa-mayer/〕 }} Marissa Ann Mayer (; born May 30, 1975) is an American software engineer and businesswoman, currently serving as the president and CEO of Yahoo!, a position she has held since July 2012. Previously, she was a long-time executive, usability leader, and key spokesperson for Google.〔〔〔 In 2014, Mayer was ranked sixth on ''Fortune''s 40 under 40 list,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business )〕 and was ranked the 16th most-powerful businesswoman in the world that year according to the same publication.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business )〕 In 2014, Mayer was heavily criticized for many of her management decisions in pieces by ''The New York Times'' and ''The New Yorker''. ==Early life and education== Mayer was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, the daughter of Margaret Mayer, an art teacher of Finnish descent,〔 English title: "Google vice president visits the land of her ancestors".〕 and Michael Mayer, an environmental engineer who worked for water companies. Her grandfather, Clem Mayer, had polio when he was 7 and served as mayor of Jackson, Wisconsin, for 32 years.〔 As a child, Mayer was "painfully shy" and was a Brownie. During middle school and high school, she took piano and ballet lessons, the latter of which taught her "criticism and discipline, poise and confidence."〔 When she was attending Wausau West High School, Mayer was on the curling team and the precision dance team.〔 She excelled in chemistry, calculus, biology, and physics. She took part in extracurricular activities, becoming president of her high school's Spanish club, treasurer of the Key Club, captain of the debate team, and captain of the pom-pom squad.〔 Her high school debate team won the Wisconsin state championship and the pom-pom squad was the state runner-up.〔 During high school, she worked as a grocery clerk. After graduating from high school in 1993,〔 Mayer was selected by Tommy Thompson, then the Governor of Wisconsin, as one of the state's two delegates to attend the National Youth Science Camp in West Virginia.〔 Intending to become a pediatric neurosurgeon, Mayer took pre-med classes at Stanford University.〔 She later switched her major from pediatric neuroscience to symbolic systems.〔 At Stanford, she danced in the university ballet’s ''Nutcracker'', was a member of parliamentary debate, volunteered at children’s hospitals, and helped bring computer-science education to Bermuda’s schools. During her junior year, she taught a class in symbolic systems, with Eric S. Roberts as her supervisor. The class was so well received by students that Roberts asked Mayer to teach another class over the summer.〔 Mayer went on to graduate with honors from Stanford with a B.S. in 1997〔 and an M.S. in computer science in 1999. For both degrees, her specialization was in artificial intelligence. For her undergraduate thesis, she built travel-recommendation software that advised users in natural-sounding human language.〔 In 2009, the Illinois Institute of Technology granted Mayer an honoris causa doctorate degree in recognition of her work in the field of search.〔 Mayer interned at SRI International in Menlo Park, California, and Ubilab, UBS's research lab based in Zurich, Switzerland.〔 She holds several patents in artificial intelligence and interface design. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marissa Mayer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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