Ben Newhouse
Yelp, Developer
Ben Newhouse is a developer at Yelp and is responsible for the creation and development of Yelp Monocle, one of the first
implementations of Augmented Reality on the iPhone.
Raised in a small town in New York, he spent a year in Taipei as an exchange student learning Mandarin before coming to Stanford to “study” Electrical Engineering as an excuse to get involved in the Silicon Valley start-up culture. Since coming to Stanford he has worked at SwayLaw LLC, Microsoft Research in Beijing, and Yelp in San Francisco where he will start working full-time upon graduation in June 2010.
A builder at heart, Ben is a relentless prototyper, working in
whatever technologies are required to bring his vision to life. He is busily trying to make 2010 the year of computer vision on consumer devices.
