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Brian Blau
Research Director
El Cerrito, CA USA
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Years of Experience
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3 years at Gartner
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22 years IT industry
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Roles and Responsibilities
Brian Blau focuses his research on consumer technologies and markets. His advice covers technical and business strategies as they relate to important and popular consumer technologies, including consumer social networks and social analytics tools, the video game market, mobile apps and OSs, the connected consumer, and many other consumer applications and services. He also covers areas such as user interfaces, computer graphics, game and interactive design, and software and application development.
Previous Experience
Mr. Blau has previously held diverse technical and leadership positions in the computer graphics, games and social networking companies. He has made significant contributions in the areas of technology-driven in-game advertising, developer-supported social networks, and visual simulation and animation tools. He also has extensive software development experience as a software development manager and developer advocate, as well as a startup founder and business manager.
Mr. Blau was an early VRML pioneer and helped establish early network-based 3D tools and technologies. In addition, he has produced trade and technical conferences, including the Electronic Theater, and other major venues at the annual SIGGRAPH conferences. He also has judged art shows and film festivals, has been published, and likes to give industry talks.
Professional Background
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Double Fusion, Director of Developer Relations, 3 years
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Bluerock Technologies, CEO, 3 years
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Autodesk, Software Development Manager, 5 years
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Education
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M.S., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 1990
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B.S., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 1988
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Publish Date
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Author(s)
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Cool Vendors in Touch and Gesture Control, 2013
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02-May-2013
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Jim Tully, John Girard, Tuong Huy Nguyen, Dean Freeman, Ganesh Ramamoorthy, Angela McIntyre, CK Lu, Brian Blau
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Market Trends: Horizontalization of Apps Offers Opportunities and Challenges In the Digital Consumer Market
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17-Apr-2013
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Shalini Verma, Brian Blau
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Cool Vendors in Consumer Mobile Applications, 2013
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08-Apr-2013
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Jessica Ekholm, Sandy Shen, Brian Blau, Michael Gartenberg
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Forecast Analysis: Mobile Services, Worldwide, 2011-2017, 1Q13 Update
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20-Mar-2013
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Shalini Verma, Stephanie Baghdassarian, Jessica Ekholm, Bruno Lakehal, Elia San Miguel, Atsuro Sato, Brian Blau
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Forecast: Mobile Services, Worldwide, 2011-2017, 1Q13 Update
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12-Mar-2013
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Shalini Verma, Stephanie Baghdassarian, Brian Blau, Jessica Ekholm, Bruno Lakehal, Elia San Miguel, Atsuro Sato
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