[UWAB] Google presentation!

[Pham, Candis E]

A MESSAGE FROM ANNA DAVDA (GOOGLE)

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Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

It's an enormous goal to accomplish and we need great people to help us achieve it. 
At Google, we do more. A lot more. 

Come learn about Google and meet our Googlers at this exciting event:

What:  Google Book Search Technical Talk

When:  Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 6pm
Where:  Klaus 1116
How:  RSVP for this event here.  

Speaker: Jon Orwant, Google Boston Office

Jon Orwant is an engineering manager at Google, where he leads a team working on Book Search.  He received his PhD from MIT in 1999, becoming CTO of O'Reilly and then director of research at France Telecom before joining Google.  He's the author of several programming books, including the bestselling Programming Perl.  He also created the Internet Quiz Show, taught game design at MIT, and invented the world's first Internet stock-picking game.  In 2004 he received the White Camel Lifetime Achievement award for contributions to Perl.

Topic: Google Book Search

In its attempt to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, Google is helping by digitizing the world's books.  In this talk, Jon Orwant will discuss some of the technical challenges involved with scanning and indexing every book on Earth. 

If you have questions about job opportunities, please email campusevents at google.com.  

We look forward to meeting you!

Best,
Anna
University Programs
Google, Inc.

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Candis Pham
B.S. Computational Media
Georgia Institute of Technology
Women at CC- Chair