Biography of Jeff Bezos

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January 12, 1964 Jeffrey Preston Bezos, known as Jeff, was born on January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the United States. He is the founder and President of Amazon.com. Bezos is a "Tau Beta Pi graduate of Princeton University and before establishing and directing the company-Internet colossus in 1994, he worked as a financial analyst for DE Shaw & co. Maternal ancestors of Jeff Bezos were settlers who lived in Texas; with the passage of time and generations had acquired a 25000 acres (101 km2) ranch in Cotulla, Texas City. Bezos's maternal grandfather was a Regional Director of the U.s. Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque. He retired early to the ranch, where he spent most of the time with his grandson; Jeff has worked with his grandfather that glia entrusted tasks extremely varied on the ranch. In these years of youth shows a remarkable aptitude for manual dexterity and mechanics (as a child he also tried to dismantle their crib with a screwdriver). Jeff Bezos was born from teenage mother, Jackie: her marriage to his father lasted little more than a year. When Jeff was five, his mother remarried, this time with Miguel Bezos, Cuban immigrated to the United States alone at age 15. After the wedding, the family moved to Houston, Texas, where Miguel, graduate, working as an engineer at Exxon. Jeff Bezos during his primary schooling shows intense and varied scientific interests: for example, in recent years, constructing an electric alarm clock to keep his younger siblings out of his room and then protect your privacy; Converts the parents ' garage into a workshop for its scientific projects. The family moved to Miami, Florida, where Jeff attended high school. Subsequently fequenta the course "Student Training Program Science" at the University of Florida. In this area receives award "Silver Knight" in 1982. Then enters Princeton University intending to study physics, but soon returns to his love, computing and computers: follows a graduated summa cum laude; perfect then the course of studies with a PhD (Bachelor of Science) in computer science and electrical engineering. Bezos will also receive an honorary doctorate in science and technology at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. Following graduation from Princeton, Jeff Bezos started working on Wall Street in the computer industry. He then worked to build a network of international trade for a company known as Fitel. Afterwards he worked in banking for Bankers Trust, becoming vice President. Later still works in it for DE Shaw & co. Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994, after making a trip across the country from New York to Seattle, preparing the business plan on the road and creating the company in his garage. Amazon's success led him to become one of the most prominent of dot-com entrepreneurs and of course it does become a billionaire. In 2004 he founded a company called Blue Origin for proven space flights. "Artificial Artificial Intelligence (AAI) is a term coined by Jeff Bezos with reference to artificial intelligence (AI). The AAI includes some data processing tasks, such as identifying the gender of a person based on the photographic analysis.
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