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33: 279:, the University of Kansas, serving on advisory boards for both the School of Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He and his wife Beth Ellyn McClendon established the McClendon Engineering Scholarship at the university in 2007, donated computer tablets for electrical engineering and computer science students, and provided a Google 796: 817: 321:
McClendon holds 41 issued patents, including thirteen relating to KML, the XML-based language schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization in two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers. KML became an open standard for
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In March 2017, McClendon resigned his full-time role at Uber, though remaining an adviser, in order to return to his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas, indicating an interest in politics. In January 2018, he announced his intention to run for
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When Google acquired Keyhole in 2004, McClendon became a director of engineering for Google Geo, a team focussed on geospatial data visualization applications. He was later promoted to vice president, overseeing the Geo team.
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McClendon received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the University of Kansas, "for outstanding contributions to the fields of electrical engineering and computer science." He has been recognized by the
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He currently serves as a research professor at the University of Kansas, having received an honorary doctorate in electrical engineering from the university in 2015. His research subjects include
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as a Democrat. He ran unopposed in the primary election and was selected as the Democratic candidate. He was defeated in the general election by Republican candidate
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in 2013, which is its top environmental prize, "for harnessing the power of technology to support conservation and green economic development."
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in 2015 for strategic, technical, and managerial leadership resulting in widespread accurate and useful geographic information.
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Never Lost Again: the Google mapping revolution that sparked new industries and augmented our reality
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Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
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On the map : a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
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Maphead : charting the wide, weird world of geography wonks
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University of Kansas Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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developing high-end workstation 3D graphics including GT, GTX,
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lawsuit against Google, contains a fictional character called
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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In 2013, he served as Grand Marshal of the University's
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which is a composite of McClendon and Michael T. Jones.
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in June 2015 to work on mapping and machine learning.
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On the map : why the world looks the way it does
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interactive display at the University's Eaton Hall.
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Keyhole's main application suite, Earth Viewer, and
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New York, New York: Gotham Books. 639:Dorrian, Blythe (December 7, 2021). 242:In November, 2021, McClendon joined 839:"OGC Approves KML as Open Standard" 534:"Brian McClendon: Alumni Spotlight" 13: 963:Bar-Zeev, Avi (October 24, 2021). 943: 492:. October 27, 2004. Archived from 431:Fisher, Adam (December 11, 2013). 14: 1123: 1049: 155:McClendon spent eight years with 366:program and the subsequent 2014 362:drama about the creation of the 1010: 975: 965:"Was Google Earth Stolen? (no)" 956: 937: 888: 853: 831: 810: 789: 767: 725: 711: 694: 676: 658: 632: 596:"Tracking Santa: the Backstory" 116:National Academy of Engineering 614: 588: 570: 552: 526: 508: 478: 460:"Google Acquires Keyhole Corp" 452: 424: 246:as a senior vice president of 150: 75:University of Kansas, Lawrence 1: 417: 121: 1066:University of Kansas Profile 7: 1112:University of Kansas alumni 1071:ART+COM against Google Inc. 582:The New York Times Magazine 438:The New York Times Magazine 395: 301:, and world-scale mapping. 253: 48:1964 (age 59–60) 10: 1128: 1097:Businesspeople in software 237: 174: 464:Mountain View, California 271:Teaching and philanthropy 261:Kansas Secretary of State 186: 145: 138:in 1986 with a degree in 85: 70: 62: 52: 44: 39: 30: 23: 1017:Garfield, Simon (2013). 982:Garfield, Simon (2012). 626:August 16, 2015, at the 407:Ronald Evans (astronaut) 250:, research and mapping 402:Keyhole Markup Language 355:The Billion Dollar Code 305:Awards and recognitions 230:He left Google to join 225: 207:, Google Local Search, 197:Keyhole Markup Language 950:Frankfurter Allgemeine 860:Jennings, Ken (2011). 520:Lawrence Journal World 316:Champions of the Earth 140:electrical engineering 895:Kilday, Bill (2018). 134:in 1982 and from the 126:McClendon grew up in 600:Official Google Blog 584:. 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Democratic
University of Kansas, Lawrence
BS
angel investor
Keyhole, Inc.
geospatial
Google
Google Earth
National Academy of Engineering
Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence High School
University of Kansas
electrical engineering
Silicon Graphics
RealityEngine
InfiniteReality
@Home Network
Keyhole, Inc.
Keyhole Markup Language
Google Maps
Street View
Panoramio
Sketchup
Waze
Google Santa Tracker
Uber
Niantic
augmented reality
Kansas Secretary of State

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