Technical Programs & Events Blog: July 2011

PyFirenze: EuroPython 2011 rocks Florence

The EuroPython 2011 Conference was held in Florence, Italy in late June. This is the primary European conference about the Python programming language and is aimed at Python programmers, users, and enthusiasts of all levels, both. Topics covered ranged from more advanced subjects, such as Refactoring PyChart by Jacob Hallen and Making CPython fast using trace-based optimisations by Mark Shannon, to many talks and workshops for beginners. The five-day sold out event featured 160 sessions and 66 speakers. Over 600 people attended including 18 Googlers from seven different offices from around the globe.

A couple of our engineers gave fascinating talks, including keynote speaker Alex Martelli, who delivered a thought-provoking discussion on Good API Design.

Jul

Google Americas Faculty Summit: Reflections from our attendees

Cross-posted from the Google Research Blog

Posted by Alfred Spector, Vice President, Research

Last week, we held our seventh annual Americas Computer Science Faculty Summit at our New York City office. About 100 faculty members from universities in the Western Hemisphere attended the two-day Summit, which focused on systems, artificial intelligence and mobile.

Jul

Highlights on Human Language Technologies from ACL 2011

The 2011 meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT) was held alongside the banks of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon in June. The conference maintains a very high bar for publication quality and provides an excellent opportunity to connect with colleagues working on various aspects of computational linguistics and human language technology.