Short-term Apple executive Yoky Matsuoka returns to Nest as CTO
Yoky Matsuoka, a leading expert in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, is returning to Alphabet's Nest Labs after serving less than nine months on the job at Apple, where she was in charge of various health-related projects including aspects of Apple Watch.
Matsuoka was rehired by Alphabet as chief technology officer at Nest, a position that assumes oversight of the firm's technology roadmap, reports Bloomberg.
In her new role, Matsuoka is responsible for ferreting out new hardware and software assets that enable Nest to better compete in the growing smart home device market, the report said. She will also be on the lookout for outside partnerships and potential internal collaborations with other Alphabet divisions.
Prior to her new post, Matsuoka was part of Apple's health technology team. Hired by the Cupertino tech giant in May 2016, she worked under COO Jeff Williams on various health-related initiatives, including HealthKit and Apple Watch, until her departure in December.
Matsuoka returns to Nest after a nearly two year absence. She was at the firm when former Apple executives Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers founded the startup in 2010, and spearheaded development of machine learning algorithms that power the Nest Learning Thermostat. Matsuoka left Nest shortly after it was acquired by Google in 2014.
Matsuoka was rehired by Alphabet as chief technology officer at Nest, a position that assumes oversight of the firm's technology roadmap, reports Bloomberg.
In her new role, Matsuoka is responsible for ferreting out new hardware and software assets that enable Nest to better compete in the growing smart home device market, the report said. She will also be on the lookout for outside partnerships and potential internal collaborations with other Alphabet divisions.
Prior to her new post, Matsuoka was part of Apple's health technology team. Hired by the Cupertino tech giant in May 2016, she worked under COO Jeff Williams on various health-related initiatives, including HealthKit and Apple Watch, until her departure in December.
Matsuoka returns to Nest after a nearly two year absence. She was at the firm when former Apple executives Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers founded the startup in 2010, and spearheaded development of machine learning algorithms that power the Nest Learning Thermostat. Matsuoka left Nest shortly after it was acquired by Google in 2014.
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She is more of a thinker than a doer, Google seems to like dreamer and thinkers verse doers. This is the problem with Moon shot projects verse having to come up with ideas which make money today verse 10 or 20 yrs from now. It was probably a bad fit at Apple and thus the reason Google stuck her as the CTO of Nest. Maybe she can come up with ideas which may make money 10 yrs from now but for now nest has way too much competition in this space. I am personally looking at the Honeywell thermostat with Homekit integration. I personally would trust Honeywell to know how to make a thermostat than a bunch of software types.
When Samsung starts to use it in their ads, we'll have to take your approach, only on their ad agency.
Ominous. I would stick that one on my refrigerator under the Brave New World/1984 category.
"Lifestyle optimization" indeed. I remember when life was taken more seriously, and we didn't know the word "lifestyle." This was before yuppies appeared on the planet, before yoga and smoothies.
Only people like Time magazine journalists in the 60s started using terms like lifestyle, e.g., "the hippie lifestyle," borrowed from anthropology. Then there appeared Sunday newspaper suppliments called Lifestyles. To my surprise, 80s people started thinking they had lifestyles instead of lives. We were then on our way to today's selfiehood.
There has been a bit of turn over lately.
I'm leaving the company I work for after in seven months. Nothing wrong with the company; we just weren't suited.
Yes, except you can trust Honeywell to support that thermostat for decades, whereas Nest will obsolete it on a whim. This is why I would only consider IoT products from companies with track records, like Lutron, Honeywell, etc.