2014年大数据行业最顶尖的人才有哪些？《财富》选出20位明星

    雅虎实验室研究员达尼埃尔•凯西亚

    小时候，达尼埃尔•凯西亚最想当一名警察，为此他还买了一辆玩具摩托车。不过现在在雅虎实验室（Yahoo Labs），他对城市的了解绝对细致入微——尽管只是在数码层面上。凯西亚拥有计算机科学博士学位和麻省理工学院（MIT）城市研究专业的博士后学位。目前他主要进行广域的城市研究。比如他构建了一款游戏，问人们喜欢哪种城市景观，然后把评分放在Facebook上进行病毒式传播。凯西亚会对结果进行研究，以确定人们喜欢或不喜欢哪种城市景观，以便最终设计出更好、更漂亮的城市。他认为：“计算机科学就是一门构建工具的学问。我想做一些新的事情，一些能对现实造成影响的事。而全球有超过一半的人口都住在城市里。”——Shalene Gupta

    Daniele Quercia, Researcher, Yahoo! Labs

    As a child Daniele Quercia wanted to be a police officer, and had a toy motorbike to prove it. Today at Yahoo Labs, he knows cities inside and out—but on a digital level. With a Ph.D in computer science in hand and post-doctoral research at MIT’s school of Urban Studies on his C.V., Quercia focuses on urban studies on a large scale. To wit: he created a game that asks people which cityscapes they prefer, then shares the scores on Facebook in an effort to go viral. Quercia analyzes the results to learn what people like and don’t like in an effort to ultimately design better and more appealing cities. “Computer science is all about building tools," he says. "I wanted to do something new, something that would make an impact. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities.” —Shalene Gupta