Technical Programs & Events Blog

Cross-posted on the Google Student Blog

We are happy to announce that the 2012 GRAD CS Forum application is now open!

As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging students of underrepresented backgrounds in technology to pursue graduate study, we are pleased to host the 2012 Google Graduate Researchers in Academia of Diverse backgrounds (GRAD) CS Forum. This forum will bring together students who are historically underrepresented in the field to connect with one another and with Google.

January 2010 brought the launch of the initial Google Graduate Researchers in Academia of Diverse backgrounds (GRAD) CS Forum.

Last week, in Aarhus, Denmark, GOTO 2011 (the international software development conference) kicked off with the announcement of Google’s new programming language Dart a class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications. Lars Bak and Gilad Bracha made the announcement during their opening keynote address, and they (along with about 20 other Google engineers) answered questions about the new language after the speech.

On September 19 - 21, Google partnered with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to host the 17th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium at our Mountain View office. Over 100 of the nation’s most distinguished engineers, aged 30 - 45, from industry, academia and government, took part in a three-day meeting examining four areas: additive manufacturing, engineering sustainable buildings, neuroprosthetics and semantic processing.

[Updated October 14, 2011: check out the embedded video of Google @ Surge 2011 below]

Google was a sponsor of the Surge 2011 conference which was held in Baltimore, MD from September 28th through the 30th. Surge is where several hundred DevOps and System Architects go to brainstorm on matters of scalability, so Google was a natural fit; so much so that our own CIO, Ben Fried, delivered the keynote address.