Technical Programs & Events Blog: March 2012

Women engineers come together at Google Cambridge

Nearly one hundred guests from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Boston joined Googlers for a fascinating technical talk Wednesday, March 21 at our Cambridge office. Google Cambridge partnered with the local chapter of SWE to showcase some of the incredible work women at Google are accomplishing and showcase the Cambridge office. Women from all areas of engineering joined us: academia, industry professionals and local students.

Guests began the evening with a sit down dinner and drinks with Googlers and had the opportunity to network with each other.

Mar

PyCon 2012

PyCon 2012 was held in Santa Clara, which was particularly convenient for many of the dozens of participants who work at Google, whose headquarters is a few miles away in Mountain View. The location was obviously convenient for others too; instead of the anticipated 1500 attendees the conference drew well over 2200, and hundreds of them stayed for the development sprints.

Mar

Google Code Jam 2012 registration is open

Today, we're opening up registration for Google Code Jam 2012. This year thousands of students, professional programmers and freelance code wizards will pit their ingenuity against a new set of algorithmic challenges concocted by our tireless team of red-eyed, LED-illuminated problem writers.

Last year’s champion, Makoto Soejima, was asked to build a house for kittens, serve food to hungry mathematicians, escape from a shady casino and help Goro control his anger.

Mar

Celebrating Black History Month

Last month, in honor of Black History Month, Google offices in five cities in North America hosted events celebrating black professionals in our community. Across the country, we opened our doors to over 400 guests consisting of engineers, entrepreneurs, technologists, students and professors.