Technical Programs & Events Blog: June 2011

The Search for New Talent Heads to Colombia

A few months ago, Google SVP Alan Eustace announced that 2011 was going to be Google's biggest hiring year to date. This expansion, as well as Google’s commitment to diversity, has taken us to new places and across borders as we search for new talent to join the company.

I was lucky enough to join four other Googlers on the first engineering university recruiting tour to Colombia. I was overjoyed to be able to return to my native country to offer the kind of outstanding internships and full-time opportunities that I dreamt of when I was an undergrad walking the same halls.

During our short stay in Colombia, we visited four universities, including EAFIT, Javeriana, U. Nacional and the Universidad de los Andes.

Jun

Reminder: HotPlanet Mobility Data Contest Starts tomorrow!

The first ever HotPlanet Mobility Data Contest is about to kick off!

If you are at MobiSys '11 or are planning on attending HotPlanet '11 we hope you'll consider participating. The contest starts on the 28th of June, tomorrow, but it's not too late to get your mobility experiment ready. If you'd like further details please check our earlier announcement on this blog or visit the contest's website. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Posted by Dr.

Jun

Google at CVPR 2011

Cross-posted with the Official Google Research Blog

Posted by Mei Han, Research Scientist

The computer vision community will get together in Colorado Springs the week of June 20th for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011). This year will see a record number of people attending the conference and 27 co-located workshops and tutorials. The registration was closed at 1500 attendees even before the conference started.

Jun

Speeding up the Internet at Velocity 2011

This week, we’ll be sponsoring the Velocity 2011 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. This is our fourth year at the O’Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference, which we attend to introduce the latest in faster web browsing, and exchange and advance ideas to make the web faster.

We’ll have some Googlers speaking at the conference about the latest performance ideas, improvements you can make to your websites, browsers, backend servers and the networks that connect it all.

Jun

Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) 2011, According to Google’s Robert Hundt

This year’s International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) took place last month in picturesque Chamonix, France, located at the bottom of Mont Blanc, Europe's highest peak. The conference covered a wide range of topics from purely static to fully dynamic approaches to optimization and tuning, including techniques ranging from pure software based methods to architectural features and support.