Steve Souders
Steve Souders在Yahoo!担任Chief Performance。他于2000年加盟Yahoo!,在该公司的很多平台和产品团队中工作过。在他到达今天这个位置之前,他就职于My Yahoo!开发团队。
作为Chief Performance Yahoo!,他开发了一系列优秀软件,可以使网站访问速度变得更快。他构建了用于进行性能分析的工具,并将这些优秀软件和工具传播到Yahoo!的各个产品团队中。
在到Yahoo!之前,Steve就职于很多小型或中型公司,包括他和别人一起创办的两个公司——Helix Systems和CoolSync。他还曾就职于General Magic、WhoWhere?和Lycos。在20世纪80年代早期,Steve捕获到了Artificial Intelligence的bug,并在一些公司里进行机器方面的研究。他在维吉尼亚大学得到了系统工程学学士学位,后又在斯坦福大学获得了管理科学和工程学硕士学位。
Steve的兴趣爱好多种多样。他常出现在Freehand System的会议桌上,并且经常光顾Fremont Hills Country Club,还在Sunday School教书。他曾与很多NBA和WNBA球员一起打篮球,但最近他改玩Ultimate Frisbee了。他是Universal Studios Internet Task Force的成员、他重建了有90年历史的车房(carriage house),他还参与了一项吉尼斯世界纪录。他有一位美丽的妻子和三个女儿。
The animal on the cover of Even Faster Web Sites is a blackbuck antelope (Antilope
cervicapra), an endangered species found mainly in India, also known as the Indian
antelope. The V-shaped horns of the male blackbuck are ringed with several spiral
twists and can be as long as 28 inches. The male’s upper body is black or dark brown,
and its belly and the rings around its eyes are white. The female is light brown and does
not normally have a horn. Blackbucks roam the plains in herds of 15 to 20, feeding on
grasses, flowers, and fruits. On the open plain, the blackbuck is one of the fastest animals
on earth, able to reach speeds of 45 mph and outrun most predators over long
distances.
From the 18th through the early 20th centuries, the blackbuck antelope was the most
hunted wild animal in India. In 1932, several species of Indian deer and antelope, including
the blackbuck, were introduced to Texas for hunting and breeding. Today,
these species live on private hunting ranches and roam the surrounding hill country.
They are so plentiful—having multiplied to 19,000 throughout the state—that many
have been shipped to India to repopulate the native habitat.
Now protected in India by the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, the blackbuck population
is steady at 50,000 native animals, plus 43,000 descended from Texas and other
populations. Although poaching is still a problem and humans have encroached on its
land, its protected status gained attention in 2006 when Indian film star Salman Khan
was sentenced to five years in jail for killing two blackbucks. According to Hindu
mythology, the blackbuck is considered to be the vehicle of the moon god, Chandrama,
and is believed to bestow prosperity wherever it lives.