Earlier this month, fifty Googlers from offices spanning North America to Zurich geared up to take on SIGGRAPH 2011, the world's premier conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques. Thousands of creative professionals converged August 7-11 in Vancouver, British Columbia to participate in the five-day interdisciplinary educational experience.

Several members of Google’s technical staff appeared on panels and talks. Paul Strauss led the “Out of Core” session that featured Google Body: an intuitive 3D context for learning and discussing human anatomy on a browser, smartphone or tablet.

Cross-posted with the Research BlogThe Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) were held in Miami, Florida, this year. Nearly 5,000 participants from academia and industry came to present and discuss the latest in statistical research, methodology, and applications. Similar to previous years, several Googlers shared expertise in large-scale experimental design and implementation, statistical inference with massive datasets and forecasting, data mining, parallel computing, and much more.

Posted by Nina Kim Schultz, Google Education Research

Cross-posted with the Official Google Blog

School may still be out for summer, but teachers remain hard at work. This week, we hosted Google’s inaugural Faculty Institute at our Mountain View, Calif. headquarters. The three-day event was created for esteemed faculty from schools of education and math and science to explore teaching paradigms that leverage technology in K-12 classrooms.
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