Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief Tech Officer

Posted by mitchbob on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @03:24PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/nyregion/mamdani-lisa-gelobter-gif.html

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Re:Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief ... by mitchbob on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @03:24PM (#46966334)

> Lisa Gelobter, whose worked helped shape the modern web, was also on the launch team at Hulu.

https://archive.ph/HL4Wv

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Re:Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief ... by yazmeya on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @03:37PM (#46966531)

> a computer scientist who helped shape the modern web by leading the team that developed the animation technology used to create GIFs

Translation: was PM at Macromedia when they shipped Shockwave

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Re:Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief ... by ChrisArchitect on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:30PM (#46967188)

What is this business about her role in GIFs? She helped invent Macromedia Shockwave.... Not remembering any kind of connection between those things... I mean, animated GIFs were already a thing that popularized on their own.... nothing to do with Shockwave really. Just both contributing at the same time to popularizing or encouraging the use of animation on the web, yeah?

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Re:Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief ... by rasz on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @03:56AM (#46972550)

>technology used to create GIFs

posthumously hired Stephen Wilhite?

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