"Rubin grew up in Chappaqua, NY, the son of a psychologist who later founded his own direct-marketing firm. His father's firm created photographs of the latest electronic gadgets to be sent with credit card bills, so Mr. Rubin’s bedroom was festooned with the latest devices." He ran a computer bulletin board system in his youth.
Education
- Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, NY 1977 - 1981.
- Utica College, Utica, New York Bachelor of Science degree in computer science 1981 - 1986.
Career
- Carl Zeiss AG, robotics engineer, 1986 - 1989.
- Apple Inc., manufacturing engineer, 1989 - 1992.
- General Magic, engineer, 1992 - 1995. An Apple spin-off where he participated in developing Magic Cap, an operating system and interface for hand-held mobile devices.
- MSN TV, engineer, 1995 - 1999. When Magic Cap failed, Rubin joined Artemis Research, founded by Steve Perlman, which became WebTV and was eventually acquired by Microsoft.
- Danger Inc., co-founder, 1999 - 2003. Founded with Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt. Firm is most notable for the Danger Hiptop, often branded as the T-Mobile Sidekick, which is a phone with PDA-like abilities. Firm was later acquired by Microsoft in February 2008.
- Android Inc., co-founder 2003 - 2005.
- Google, senior vice president, 2005 - present. In charge of Android.
List of patents
- Andrew Rubin (or as Andrew E. Rubin or Andy Rubin) is named as an inventor in four US Patents including
- U.S. Patent 6,701,522, Apparatus and method for portal device authentication, 2000 Apr 7, Assignee: Danger Inc.
- U.S. Patent 6,735,624, Method for configuring and authenticating newly delivered portal device, 2000 Apr 7, Assignee: Danger Inc.
- U.S. Patent 6,721,804, Portal system for converting requested data into a bytecode format based on..., 2000 Nov 15, Assignee: Danger Inc.
- U.S. Patent 7,960,945, Estimating remaining use time of a mobile device, 2011 Jun 14, Assignee: Google Inc.
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