1. Google I/O is our annual 2-day developer conference we host in San Francisco. With more than 5500 developers in attendance and 722 Googlers presenting and demoing it’s the biggest event Google hosts and this year we extended the magic of I/O beyond the conference center to hundreds of thousands of developers across the globe. Keep reading to find out more...

    Do you know what the “I/O” in “Google I/O” stands for? It’s actually a trick question. The I/O is a nod to the input and output of computer programming, the 1s and 0s of binary code, but doesn’t actually stand for any two words. It also represents the aspirational idea of “innovation in the open” which happens when you gather thousands of developers and hundreds of Googlers to have them work together on the next generation of exciting web technologies.

    The Google I/O team wanted to redefine what it meant to host a conference at scale with Google I/O 2011. With I/O selling out in a mere 59 minutes, the team knew filling Moscone wouldn’t be a problem but also wanted to share the magic of I/O beyond the conference center. In years prior, we had streamed the keynotes but this year the I/O team created I/O Live which livestreamed two full days of content from concurrent sessions, complete with live captioning to the world. In total, Google I/O was streamed to 1,000,000 viewers. You can watch all the video content yourself here.

    But I/O is so much more than simply watching the presentations on a screen. It’s about the developer community. It’s about meeting fellow developers and the input and output of ideas, technology and passions. There were more than 100 viewing parties in 50 countries all over the world where developers gathered to share the I/O experience as part of Google I/O Extended.

    And to make sure our friends and fans close to home could share in the experience, the Industry Programs team opened the doors of our North American offices and hosted 11 events at our offices from coast to coast. Students, developers, and professionals from Waterloo, Ontario to Santa Monica, California and from Seattle, Washington to Cambridge, Massachusetts and more were all connected to the excitement coming out of San Francisco on day 1 of I/O. Check out the map below to see all the locations as well as pictures from the offices.


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    Nearly 1,000 Google I/O Extended participants came to our offices to watch the keynotes, see live demos from Googlers and share their own work fellow developers. Attendees got a tour of the local office, a free lunch, plenty of snacks, a goodie bag to take home and an invitation to come back and visit us for lunch some time. We hope to see some of them soon and look forward to hosting more folks at Google I/O Extended 2012!

    Posted by Craig Rubens, People Operations Communications team
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  2. Cross-posted with the Official Google Blog


    2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founded to speed along America’s industrial progress through scientific innovation. MIT has been at the forefront of computer science with key advancements in the field, like the invention of core memory, the first file sharing system and RSA, the algorithm for public key encryption. MIT and Google share many of the same goals and philosophies, and as part of MIT's 150th anniversary celebration, we wanted to take stock of the many ways we've been working together.

    More than 500 MIT graduates work at Google, in Boston and beyond—on Android, Chrome, crisis relief efforts and more. At our Cambridge, Mass., office—just down the road from MIT’s campus—and at the newly acquired ITA office, you can spot many MIT alumni Googlers proudly sporting red and gray in celebration of the milestone anniversary.

    We love our Googler MIT grads, but our partnership with the university goes beyond an alumni relationship: we also support the university’s mission of discovery and innovation in the sciences. Recently, we gave a focused research award to CSAIL to further research in computer science and artificial intelligence. We also partnered with researchers at the MIT Media Lab on Konbit, a service that helps communities rebuild themselves after a crisis. In the same lines, we’re sponsoring MIT Next Lab, a group that researches and develops ways in which people can use mobile platforms to solve global and economic issues. And finally, as part of their 150th anniversary celebration, MIT announced a major Intelligence Initiative (I²) that we’re helping to support. Beyond the pure scientific goals, it’s hoped that this research will lead to practical applications in the form of more intelligent systems and software that will benefit society broadly

    In addition, we have close relationships with some of MIT's faculty, like Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science and a member of Google's Visiting Faculty program, who has used our technology to conduct education outreach. He started the Young Android Project in 2007 and helped design App Inventor, which launched in 2010. Hal also teaches classes to non-engineers about building Android apps.

    This summer we’re looking forward to welcoming high school students into our Boston office through the MIT MITES program to introduce a whole new crop of future scientists to the joys of science and engineering. Plus, 50 MIT students will join Google as interns this summer alone.

    Although MIT was established more than 100 years before the Internet was invented, the institution has continued to remain a world leader in technological research, development and advancement. We’re excited to celebrate the university on its anniversary, and look forward to a continued and strong relationship for the next century to come.

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  3. Cross-posted with the Official Google Research Blog

    Google has an increasing presence at ACM CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which is the premiere conference for Human Computer Interaction research. Eight Google papers will appear at the conference. These papers not only touch on our core areas such as Search, Chrome and Android but also demonstrate our growing effort in new areas where HCI is essential, such as new search user interfaces, gesture-based interfaces and cross-device interaction. They showcase our efforts to address user experiences in diverse situations. Googlers are playing active roles in the conference in many other ways too: participating in conference committees, hosting panels, organizing workshops and teaching courses, as well as running demos and 1:1 sessions at Google's booth.

    This year's CHI takes place in Vancouver, BC, from May 7th - 12th.

    PAPERS

    User-Defined Motion Gestures for Mobile Interaction
     by Jaime Ruiz, Yang Li*, Edward Lank

    Experimental Analysis of Touch-Screen Gesture Designs in Mobile Environments by Andrew Bragdon, Eugene Nelson, Yang Li*, Ken Hinckley

    Many Bills: Engaging Citizens through Visualizations of Congressional Legislation by Yannick Assogba, Irene Ros, Joan DiMicco, Matt McKeon*

    YouPivot: Improving Recall with Contextual Search by Joshua Hailpern, Nicholas Jitkoff*, Andrew Warr*, Karrie Karahalios, Robert Sesek, Nik Shkrob

    Oops, I Did It Again: Mitigating Repeated Access Control Errors on Facebook by Serge Egelman, Andrew Oates*, Shriram Krishnamurthi



    WORKSHOPS
    Crowdsourcing and Human Computation: Systems, Studies and Platforms by Michael Bernstein, Ed H. Chi*, Lydia B. Chilton, Björn Hartmann, Aniket Kittur, Robert C. Miller

    PANELS
    Designing for User Experience: Academia & Industry by Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye, Elizabeth Buie, Jettie Hoonhout, Kristina Höök, Virpi Roto, Scott Jenson*, Peter Wright

    Festschrift Panel in Honor of Stuart K. Card by Ed H. Chi*, Peter Pirolli, Bonnie John, Judith S Olson, Dan Russell*, Tom Moran

    CHI Should be Replicating and Validating Results More: Discuss by Max L. Wilson, Wendy Mackay, Ed H. Chi*, Michael Bernstein, Dan Russell*, Harold Thimbleby

    Transferability of Research Findings: Context-Dependent or Model-Driven by Ed H. Chi*, Mary Czerwinski, David Millen, Dave Randall, Gunnar Stevens, Volker Wulf, John Zimmerman

    The Future of Child-Computer Interaction by Allison Druin, Gary Knell, Elliot Soloway, Dan Russell*, Elizabeth Mynatt, Yvonne Rogers

    CASE STUDIES
    From Basecamp to Summit: Scaling Field Research Across 9 Locations by Jens Riegelsberger*, Audrey Yang*, Konstantin Samoylov*, Elizabeth Nunge*, Molly Stevens*, Patrick Larvie*

    COURSES
    Design and Analysis of Large Scale Log Studies by Susan Dumais, Robin Jeffries*, Dan Russell*, Diane Tang*, Jaime Teevan

    SIG MEETING
    Participatory Culture in the Age of Social Media by Dana Rotman, Sarah Vieweg, Sarita Yardi, Ed H. Chi*, Jenny Preece, Ben Shneiderman, Peter Pirolli, Tom Glaisyer

    Note: * denotes a Googler
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  4. Google is in action at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2011 in Vancouver, Canada with papers, panels, product demos and more. On Tuesday, May 10th of the conference, we challenge you to search for Google’s CHI at CHI. What’s CHI at CHI? Is it flowing life energy? Is it the third letter of the Greek alphabet?

    It’s just the little puzzle that could win you a big prize: an Android-powered Samsung Galaxy tablet. Figure out what we mean by CHI at CHI, and if you search and find, you’ll have a chance to nab a new gadget.

    Tip: Keep your eyes open at the conference, from the exhibit floor to the session rooms, for something Googley that screams CHI.

    Search and ye shall find.


    Posted by Vivian Fontillas, Research Programs team


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