The very first Girls Leading in Development and Engineering (GLIDE) community kick-off event was held last month at the Google Tokyo office. The GLIDE community was launched in Japan recently with the mission to encourage women to excel in computing and become active leaders in the field. The founders of the GLIDE community consist of women from different regions of Japan who are currently excelling in the field of computer science and have shown a deep passion for growing, promoting and strengthening female leaders in the world of engineering. The participants at the kick-off event consisted of former BOLD interns and the Anita Borg Scholars and finalists who are currently residing in different areas of Japan.
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As we mentioned in a previous post, Googlers traveled to Boston this month to participate in the Usenix LISA '11 conference. Nearly 1,300 IT professionals attended this year’s conference to discuss cutting edge system administration techniques and technologies.  

2011 marks Google’s eighth year as a LISA sponsor, and we had a significant presence at the conference. The numerous technical sessions presented by Googlers all had a common thread: overcoming organizational opposition to change.

Code Jam is an annual programming competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time, using the programming language of their choice. This year, Google engineers based in the Tokyo office came together as the Google Code Jam Japan team to create a unique set of problems and prepare a fully internationalized contest UI, all in Japanese.

We participate in the sysadmin community in many ways. Many Googlers are involved in their local Unix users’ groups and give presentations at conferences. One conference we participate heavily in is the USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference. LISA is the place to be for everything sysadmin - there will be talks, workshops, and trainings for DevOps and System Administrators. This year, the conference will take place in Boston on Dec 4-9, 2011.

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.

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.
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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.

As you may have noticed, the Google Technical Programs and Events blog looks different today. That’s because we—along with a few other Google blogs—are trying out a new set of Blogger templates called Dynamic Views.

Launched today, Dynamic Views is a unique browsing experience that makes it easier and faster for readers to explore blogs in interactive ways.

Updated 10/3: The original post included the previously scheduled dates. We've updated the post and the correct dates are now listed below. -Yuko

Code Jam is an annual programming competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time, using the programming language of their choice.
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