Posted by Vahab Mirrokni, Research Scientist, Google Research New YorkGoogle regularly participates in the WINE conference: Workshop on Internet & Network Economics. WINE’12 just happened last week in Liverpool, UK, where there is a strong economics and computation group. WINE provides a forum for researchers across various disciplines to examine interesting algorithmic and economic problems of mutual interest that have emerged from the Internet over the past decade. For Google, the exchange of ideas at this selective workshop has resulted...
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Conference Report: Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE) 2012
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Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Using online courses in Spain to teach entrepreneurship
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Posted by Francisco Ruiz Anton, Policy Manager, Google Spain Cross-posted with the Policy by the Numbers BlogAt the end of the third quarter in 2012, roughly 25% of adults in Spain were out of work. More than half of adults under 24 years old are unemployed. Recent graduates and young adults preparing to enter the workforce face the toughest job market in decades.The Internet presents an opportunity for growth and economic development. According to recent research, more than 100,000 jobs in Spain originate from the Internet and it directly...
Monday, 17 December 2012
Millions of Core-Hours Awarded to Science
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Posted by Andrea Held, Program Manager, University RelationsIn 2011 Google University Relations launched a new academic research awards program, Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty, offering up to one billion core-hours to qualifying proposals. We were looking for projects that would consume 100M+ core-hours each and be of critical benefit to society. Not surprisingly, there was no shortage of applications. Since then, the following seven scientists have been working on-site at Google offices in Mountain View and Seattle. They are here to run...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Continuing the quest for future computer scientists with CS4HS
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Erin Mindell, Program Manager, Google Education Computer Science for High School (CS4HS) began five years ago with a simple question: How can we help create a much needed influx of CS majors into universities and the workforce? We took our questions to three of our university partners--University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon, and UCLA--and together we came up with CS4HS. The model was based on a “train the trainer” technique. By focusing our efforts on teachers and bringing them the skills they need to implement CS into their classrooms, we would...
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