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.

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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.

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.

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.

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 Gradua

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.

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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.

[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.

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.

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

We’re thrilled to be one of the Platinum Sponsors at this year’s Surge, the scalability and performance conference. This is our inaugural year at Surge, and we’re excited to join all the great minds within the scalability and performance worlds in Baltimore, Maryland, September 28-30.

“While visiting the planet Theta VIII, your team of space explorers is forced to participate in the plot of a badly-written book, which takes place in a hotel/casino called the Google Royale.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Google I/O is our annual 2-day developer conference we host in San Francisco.

Cross-posted with the Official Google Blog

2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founded to speed along America’s industrial progress through scientific innovation.

Posted by Yang Li, Research Scientist

Cross-posted with the Official Google Research Blog

Google has an increasing presence at ACM CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which is the premiere conference for Human Computer Interaction research.

Google is in action at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2011 in Vancouver, Canada with papers, panels, product demos and more. On Tuesday, May 10th of the conference, we challenge you to search for Google’s CHI at CHI.

A view from the conference session rooms at WWW:

The 20th International World Wide Web (WWW 2011) conference attracted top researchers, students, developers and web-focused companies to the historic host city of Hyderabad, India, March 28 - April 1.

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Cross posted from the Official Google Blog

Imagine you’re a ninja, trying to master your deadly grappling hook. Or perhaps you’re a chess grand master, outsmarting your opponent’s every move. Or even a Taoist philosopher, explaining the deep truths of the world to your followers.

Cross-posted from the Official Open-Source at Google Blog.

Today marks the start of the 2011 Google Summer of Code student application period.

Google Summer of Code is a global program where university students are given a stipend to write code for open source projects over a three month period.

Hello WWW 2011 attendees

Global members of our technical team, from New York to Tel Aviv, are in Hyderabad this week for the World Wide Web 2011 conference to demonstrate our commitment to advancing the state of the web.

(Cross-posted from the Google.org Blog)

Like the rest of the world, we’ve been transfixed by the images and news coming out of the northeastern part of Japan over the past six days.

As many of you may know, Python is one of the official languages here at Google.

For those of you who were quick to register for Google I/O, we thank you for continuing to support our developer initiatives--this year's I/O is slated to be one of our best yet. For the rest of our developers, we weren’t kidding when we told you we <3 our developers.

Due to the earthquake in Japan's Tohoku and Kanto regions, both qualifying and final rounds of Code Jam Japan have been postponed.  We will announce the contest dates at a later date, possibly May 2011 but to be decided. Our prayers are with those who have been affected by this tragedy.

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