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CEO @Inflection AI | Co-founder Braingels; Prev: Chief R&D @Mozilla ; Co-founder @BrightSkyLabs , Teaching @Stanford , @GreylockVC ,

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@seanwhite
Sean White
6 years
We interact through language every day. Starting to solve the problem of making speech recognition and voice data more accessible, and the opportunity to include the worlds languages @mozilla check out the work
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7 years
. @bwecht true & regardless of cause, and even if it was low probability, we'd want to do everything possible to prepare for the worst.
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7 years
#webvr It's not just for developers anymore. Available to everyone in @firefox 55 -
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@seanwhite
Sean White
4 years
We have an organization of amazing, talented people @mozilla who are looking for ways to help in this public health crisis. What are resources you know for the problems that need to be solved and ways to help? pls reach out and retweet.
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@seanwhite
Sean White
7 years
Making the web better. @figmadesign uses #webassembly and cuts load time by 3x. ht @linclark @mozilla
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@seanwhite
Sean White
4 years
Lots of amazing and talented people will be leaving Mozilla. Real makers and world changers. If you have any opportunities, reach out at #MozillaLifeboat
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@seanwhite
Sean White
6 years
A community for the very human, collaborative, tactile future @dynamicland1 thanks for sharing your vision of open & accessible @worrydream @lukexi love that the source for the "RealtalkOS" lives on a few boards
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Sean White
5 years
Exciting work by @mozillareality team and across @mozilla to innovate and bring the web and #MixedReality to @htc
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4 years
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@seanwhite
Sean White
7 years
Strength from @6gems & @BlackGirlsCode at #marchforscience in San Jose - "understand more, fear less" sign feels right
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@seanwhite
Sean White
6 years
Come join us at @mozilla to forge the future for people & the Internet. New roles are up as devs, designers, research, and product - managers and ICs; Android, desktop, platform, UX, and back-end as well as future platforms; Global locations!
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@seanwhite
Sean White
5 years
I expect I don't say it enough but thankful for the team and organization I work with here at @mozilla
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Sean White
6 years
Giving Things a url to link and discover at #MakerFaireBayArea exciting work form the @MozillaIoT team @mozilla
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Sean White
6 years
Excited for this launch and proud to be a part of an organization that leads with #fastforgood @firefox @mozilla
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6 years
More speed for the web! #webassembly shipping in all major browsers.
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@seanwhite
Sean White
6 years
At the rally to reunite families in Mountain View. Spilling out across many blocks and from the podium, a line that resonates to cheers: “Diversity is in our DNA”
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@seanwhite
Sean White
6 years
Want to know how we're building a faster @firefox ? Check out the amazing @linclark explainer.
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Sean White
6 years
Rust powering up my morning
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Sean White
6 years
Another big step for users. Excited to see us move down the path to Mixed Reality as an experience and not just an app in Firefox Reality. #VR #AR @mozillareality
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Sean White
8 years
Research has impact in many forms. @ServoDev using @rustlang collaborating w @mozilla platform for next Quantum leap
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@seanwhite
Sean White
5 years
Please share far and wide. Want to have global impact and be a positive actor in data science? Come join us @mozilla as VP Data Science and Analytics
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Sean White
6 years
Maybe you love @firefox Quantum with all that #fast4good or perhaps your belief system feels aligned with @mozilla - if those sounds right for you, or even if it doesn't but you want to do the right thing - head over to @ProductHunt and vote for FFQuantum
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@seanwhite
Sean White
6 years
Researchers: we're now accepting submissions for the 2018H1 @mozilla Research Grant program.
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Sean White
5 years
Excited for the new effort around WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) taking Web Assembly beyond the browser. As usual, @linclark puts it all in perspective
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@seanwhite
Sean White
6 years
Nice work @RezaAli and @joshcarpenter - looking forward to trying it out across the web
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Sean White
5 years
Congratulations to the @mozillareality team on their new release of Firefox Reality on the Oculus Quest
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Sean White
6 years
"with most social VR experiences requiring app stores and downloads, the idea of using a URL to dive into a social environment is oddly unique." #webvr @lucasmtny @TechCrunch
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Sean White
6 years
When the web is made physical with @rustlang and #wasm
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Sean White
6 years
Twenty years. I feel fortunate to be working here and inspired by my colleagues almost every day.
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@seanwhite
Sean White
7 years
The #MuslimBan is wrong. Wrong for wrong for humanity, wrong for the American ideal, wrong for innovation, wrong in every way.
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@seanwhite
Sean White
8 years
MIDI + #augmentedreality Fantastic end of quarter student project in #Stanfordcs377m @StanfordHCI using @HoloLens
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@seanwhite
Sean White
4 years
Is this you? We're expanding Mozilla's board in 2020 and hoping to add three new members to the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors over the next 18 months.
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Sean White
2 years
Makes me glad every time I see a @MozillaHubs url pop up in an unexpected place. So much creativity!
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Sean White
8 years
Web is #10kDays old. Imagine 10k days in the future, when the physical world becomes links to knowledge & experiences in #augmentedreality
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Sean White
8 years
Arrived early. Now I only need 7 more @HoloLens for #cs377m @StanfordHCI #AugmentedReality
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Sean White
6 years
Turbocharging our #mixedreality projects.
@mozillareality
Mozilla Reality
6 years
A big welcome to our @mozillaresearch @ServoDev colleagues joining the @mozillareality team! Stay tuned here for upcoming announcements about our #GeckoView based browsers with @ServoDev tech inside...
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@seanwhite
Sean White
5 years
I'm pretty sure I've seen these before somewhere....
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Sean White
6 years
Felt like I was exploring a memory palace created by Laurie Anderson in Chalkroom at #tribeca2018 #VR . Then wondered what it would be like if everyone could create these and share them with #WebVR
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@seanwhite
Sean White
4 years
Thoughtful, empathetic, and action-oriented. Exactly what you'd expect from a real president.
@BarackObama
Barack Obama
4 years
I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real change––and pulled together some resources to help young activists sustain the momentum by channeling their energy into concrete action.
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Sean White
4 years
Just gave my first online closing keynote at @IEEEVR and then had a Q&A session in @MozillaHubs - so much amazing work to make that happen.
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Sean White
7 years
First steps in the Common Voice project. - Google, Mozilla, And The Race To Make Voice Data For Everyone
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Sean White
5 years
10 years? Time flies.
@ARstories
Dr. Helen Papagiannis, Ph.D.
5 years
Oh wow, SUPER NICE to see this☺️! @ARealityEvent 2010 OG crew, baby 😎! Thanks @comogard for the shoutout on stage #AWE2019 ! Here’s to another 10 years of AWE-someness♥️! Photo via @patchedreality
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Sean White
7 years
Chant at the march keeps making me grin. What do we want? Evidence based science! When do we want it? After peer review! #MarchForScience
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@seanwhite
Sean White
6 years
Congratulations to the @MozDevNet team! From survey results of 21K developers across 169 countries, @SlashDataHQ ranked MDN Web Docs the top developer choice for Documentation and Sample Code.
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Sean White
5 years
Want to make a difference? Join us for MozFest’s 10th anniversary gathering of educators, activists, technologists, researchers, artists, and people dedicated to creating a better, healthier internet. #mozfest
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@seanwhite
Sean White
6 years
@bonatsos @mattmiesnieks Or, and I’m just spitballing here, we could try to create a system like the web that is open and interoperable, to promote innovation, creativity, and people first experiences.
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@seanwhite
Sean White
8 years
Interop for bike addons and services. Love the open model here @OpenBikeHQ @highway1io #DemoDay
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Sean White
8 years
Thanks @metaglasses @RyanPamplin great demo of latest. Checking platforms for @stanfordhci #augmentedreality class
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Sean White
8 years
Shared from my @HoloLens . Stable registration even with reflective surfaces #AugmentedReality
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Sean White
8 years
I'll be teaching a class on #HCI Issues in Mixed & #AugmentedReality at @Stanford this Spring in CS Department. Will post syllabus soon.
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Sean White
6 years
"The second reason we love AV1 is that it delivers better compression technology than even high-efficiency codecs – about 30% better"
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Sean White
4 years
Josh is amazing and you'd be fortunate to hire him.
@joshmarinacci
Josh Marinacci
4 years
I'm leaving @mozillareality and looking for the next step. Please RT. #webxr #management #SoftwareEngineering
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Sean White
5 years
Thanks again @avantgame for coming last week to @mozilla - discussions continuing on issues in #ethicalOS and how that informs existing & future ways people connect to Internet, and the opportunities it opens up as well. ht @myravery for organizing & @artlawdevi for perspective
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Sean White
6 years
Incredibly excited to share this - apply to be part of XRStudio this summer. XR Studio is for women interested in mixed reality and artificial intelligence in San Francisco May 2018 to August 2018.
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Sean White
5 years
Amazing work across teams putting this all together. The web the world needs can be ours again, if we want it. Please join me and millions of Firefox users in choosing a safer, more connected world.
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Sean White
6 years
BBQ and music ready. Feels great to be back in Austin for #yallhands looking forward to seeing colleagues from far flung places.
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Sean White
7 years
Make your voice heard & contribute to the commons w Project Common Voice @mozilla
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Sean White
7 years
Great to see #rustbridge making @rustlang community even better
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ashley williams
7 years
thank u so much for learning @rustlang with us! ya'll are awesome!! #rustbridge @Carols10cents ✨⚙️🦀⚙️✨
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Sean White
3 years
It turns out I don't need a watchdog process to know when #Roblox is down. My kid is just going to tell me over and over and over until it comes back up. #robloxisdown
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Sean White
7 years
@mozhacks @firefox Totally worth it - now those portal concepts can be real & don't have to teach my kids quaternions yet - they make WebVR worlds in @aframevr
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Sean White
8 years
So interesting watching natural gestures when I put @HoloLens on people and failure modes. #AugmentedReality #ux has plenty of space to grow
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Sean White
9 years
Making technology in wood is a thing and it makes me happy @SoluMachines @Monohm_Inc http://t.co/JA93c2WKmT
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Sean White
6 years
"Stylo was the culmination of a near-decade of R&D, a multiple-moonshot effort to build a better browser by building a better language. This is the story of how it happened."
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Sean White
8 years
#mozlondon @cbeard talks a future worth fighting for
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Sean White
6 years
Want to make the web better? Another great @linclark explainer on WebAssembly tools for Rust - @rustlang #webassembly
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Sean White
5 years
Feeling hopeful about the community of people, old colleagues and new, at @ARealityEvent #AWE2019 and the future we can build together
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Sean White
9 years
Made an app for my daughter #kittens #augmentedreality #applewatch potential for future interface with #watchAR http://t.co/Log6rZkoo5
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Sean White
8 years
"Over prepared" is exactly what I want in my @POTUS #debatenight
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Sean White
4 years
You're working on great solutions. We're expanding our MOSS fund to provide awards of up to $50,000 each to open source technology projects (software, hardware, etc...) which are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in some way. Check it out and retweet.
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@seanwhite
Sean White
8 years
Dovetails nicely with the recent @DJ44 post on shortest path to visit all parks.
@Interior
US Department of the Interior
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Entrance fees are waived at all national parks Aug 25-28. Please RT to spread the word! #FindYourPark
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Sean White
7 years
Using #commonvoice for machine learning and music samples at #Mozfest @mozillafestival @mozilla
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Sean White
6 years
Thanks for the copy of your book @pjcozzi - but even more, thanks for all the work on @glTF3D . It's inspiring new creativity everywhere I turn.
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Sean White
6 years
Great to hear stories of impact with @rustlang
@figma
Figma
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We rewrote our multiplayer server in Rust and saw dramatic server-side performance improvements. The latest from Figma CTO @evanwallace CC: @rustlang
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@seanwhite
Sean White
8 years
Here we are. Back to work, together, to make a better world.
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@seanwhite
Sean White
6 years
Bringing art and technology together to ask questions about the future of information via #mixedreality at #RealityRedrawn kicked off by @lyssaslounge @mozilla @TheTechMuseum
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Sean White
6 years
Chorizo & egg, Plenary, All Hands, Alcomar, and a great day with everyone on the team firing all cylinders, topped off with Alabama doing the right thing. #yallhands bring in a great day with @mozilla
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@seanwhite
Sean White
3 years
In a very very long line at @StanfordHealth to get a Pfizer shot and somehow this make me happy to see everyone here.
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@seanwhite
Sean White
5 years
Looking forward to discussing the web and future of AR with @auradeluxe this Thursday morning. Come join us! @ARealityEvent #AWE2019
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@seanwhite
Sean White
3 years
I’ve now seen several niche application specific headsets coming from start-ups. They don’t try to solve everything, just a particular use case. Curious if this is a trend? I only know of three right now. @blairmacintyre @avibarzeev @TrevorFSmith
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Sean White
6 years
Congratulations to the @MozillaIoT team. The 0.5 release of the Things Gateway comes with an experimental chat-style interface with text or voice, along with a bunch of new features.
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@seanwhite
Sean White
6 years
#VR experience #MyAfrica premiering at @tribeca from @ConservationOrg . The story alone was powerful but immersion in the experience, being in the well and on the plane, shaped the point of view perfectly. These types of experiences can connect and engage hearts and minds.
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Sean White
4 years
Put together with lots of effort acrsoss teams. Check our our cool “privacy not included” guide to holiday shopping. Esp. for the wide world of IoT.
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Sean White
9 years
@mikekuniavsky Because unconnected #iot hardware is lonely hardware.
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Sean White
7 years
Amazing view from above at #womensmarchSF #WomensMarch
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Sean White
5 years
Working on a technology start-up to advance progressive politics? Only three weeks left to apply for @highergroundlab 2019 program! Deadline is February 22.
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@seanwhite
Sean White
5 years
Our own @larsberg_ sharing work from @mozilla and ways the web makes VR better for everyone
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Good Morning Web3 🌅
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OC6 Interview: Mozilla's Director of Mixed Reality Lars Bergstrom discusses WebVR and its importance to VR's growth -
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Sean White
6 years
Looking forward to discussing #Mixedreality at #sundance
@mozilla
Mozilla
6 years
We’re heading to #sundance next week to explore how technology can be used to push the limits of storytelling. If you'll be there, come check out #VRthePeople !
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Sean White
7 years
Mixed reality continues to open new frontiers in creative expression.
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Sean White
8 years
So when is it just applied statistics and not AI? Asking for a friend.
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Sean White
7 years
Great to see @mozTechSpeakers & @andgokevin inspiring developers in emerging tech.
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Sean White
7 years
Great work from @MortimerGoro & @mozillavr team: Servo + Rust + WebVR -> fast, safe, open, empowering
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Sean White
6 years
"I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality" from @JRosenworcel on #NetNeutrality
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