Technical Programs & Events Blog

Have you ever wondered what your personal mobility pattern is?

Do you know where and in what context you meet your familiar strangers?

Do you know why it is important to quantify your location privacy?

If you know the answers to these questions then the Mobility Data Contest (hosted at the ACM HotPlanet'11 workshop) is for you! Haven’t a clue as to what the heck we’re talking about? We also want you to take part and learn more about the fascinating peculiarities of human mobility.

The HotPlanet ‘11 Mobility Data Contest consists of designing a human mobility experiment, processing the collected data, visualizing it and communicating the results to a broader audience through the medium of your choice.

Google Classroom is now in session! With the launch of our new program, we’re inviting qualified engineers with a passion for coding on-site at Google to attend a three-part educational series. Our own engineers become professors for a night as they teach their eager pupils the ins and outs of the products they’re working on.

Once a Googler, always a Googler.

The Google Alumni Network, launched in October of 2010, is gearing up for a number of events in the upcoming months.  We’re really excited that former Googlers are going to have opportunities to reconnect all over the world. The inaugural event will take place later this month in San Francisco and will feature a panel of Alumni speakers doing awesome things post-Google, plenty of food and networking, as well as cool SWAG.

BTW 2011

Kaiserslautern, Germany

February 28 to March 4

For 25 years, the Business, Technologie und Web conference has been the central forum for the German database community. At this bi-annual event, scientists, practitioners and users exchange information on a variety of topics surrounding database and information technology.