Neven joined forces with Google’s Picasa photo editing and management software team, spending two years developing a tool that could bring photo facial recognition to the masses. article provided by Usa Today

Now the software is here, and Google is winning raves for its accuracy. It’s not perfect, as Google engineers point out, but it’s still a major step forward.

“I find it interesting to understand how the human mind works,” says Neven, who now works at Google as a lead technical manager. “How it is so adept and capable at learning. And the best way to teach the theory on brain functions is to write a program that’s quite similar.”