Technical Programs & Events Blog

Do you find yourself searching for information on the conferences we attend? Are you interested in finding out where we're showcasing our products and career opportunities? We're excited to announce the launch of our Technical Programs and Events site - the official "home" of this blog. Through this site, we will be engaging directly with the technical community, providing you with constantly-updated information on Google's outreach programs and career opportunities. And since we want you to know where we'll be and when, we've included a calendar of our upcoming events and conferences. Check out the site here.

Attention engineers and technologists in the New York Area: You're invited to Google's NYC office February 16th, 5:30 - 8 p.m. EST, for a talk on graphs and their various applications in social networks with Chris Dixon, co-founder of Hunch and the Founder Collector. Check out the agenda and tell us you're coming here.

Hosted monthly at Google's NYC office, the tech talk series will cover a variety of topics of strong interest to the NYC technology community.

We are pleased to announce that Layali Rashid and Jing Zheng have been selected to receive Google Conference Travel Awards to ASPLOS 2011, March 5-11 in Newport Beach, CA. They are both exemplary students whose intellectual contributions and commitment to leadership in the computer science community are noteworthy.

Over one thousand minds met in Vancouver last month to define future trends in smart information processing at the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS). The single-track program featured tutorials with leading scientists, late night poster and demo sessions, best paper presentations, followed by workshops held a snowball’s throw away from the slopes of Whistler Mountain.

Googlers published 9 papers and co-led 3 workshops (see full list below).

Our ongoing commitment to scholarly research and support of the advancement of female computer scientists was illuminated late last year among the fountains and sculptures of Florence, Italy, when two female computer science scholars were awarded travel grants to attend ACM Multimedia 2010 (ACM MM).

We had the opportunity to speak to Andreea Danielescu, a third year PhD student at Arizona State University, and Behnoosh Hariri, a PhD in a post-doc year at University of Ottawa.

Hello and welcome to your global forum for staying in tune with upcoming Google events and activities across the Computer Science world (for examples, read on). Find out where we’ll be and how you can talk with us, or where we were and what we thought about it. In addition, we’ll feature guest posts from members of the technical community, puzzle and prize challenges, technical award announcements, and more.