Posted by Andrea Held, Google University RelationsCross-posted with Google Developers BlogLast year we invited proposals for innovative projects built on Google’s infrastructure. Today we are pleased to announce the 11 recipients of a Google App Engine Education Award. Professors and their students are using the award in cloud computing courses to study databases, distributed systems, web mashups and to build educational applications. Each selected project received $1000 in Google App Engine credits. Awarding computational resources to classroom...
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University RelationsLast week, I attended the annual SIGCSE (Special Interest Group, Computer Science Education) conference in Denver, CO. Google has been a platinum sponsor of SIGCSE for many years now, and the conference provides an opportunity for hundreds of computer science (CS) educators to share ideas and work on strategies to bring high quality CS education to K12 and undergraduate students.Significant...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Ed H. Chi, Staff Research ScientistSocial interactions have always been an important part of the human experience. Social interaction research has shown results ranging from influences on our behavior from social networks [Aral2012] to our understanding of social belonging on health [Walton2011], as well as how conflicts and coordination play out in Wikipedia [Kittur2007]. Interestingly, social scientists have studied social interactions for many years, but it wasn’t until very recently that researchers can study these mechanisms through the...
Friday, 8 March 2013
Posted by Dave Orr, Amar Subramanya, and Fernando Pereira, Google Research When someone mentions Mercury, are they talking about the planet, the god, the car, the element, Freddie, or one of some 89 other possibilities? This problem is called disambiguation (a word that is itself ambiguous), and while it’s necessary for communication, and humans are amazingly good at it (when was the last time you confused a fruit with a giant tech company?), computers...
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