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All rights reserved. webmaster@world-of-newave.com (Webmaster) Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:21:17 GMT Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:21:17 GMT Newave Lisa XML Engine v1.0 - http://www.world-of-newave.info/about.htm 60 http://www.world-of-newave.info/images/wi8831.gif World-of-Newave.info - Knowledge and Informational Database http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 88 31 {INTERNET > GOOGLE} - Strengthening the study of computer science http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/strengthening-the-study-of-computer-science-20080882831.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/strengthening-the-study-of-computer-science-20080882831.htm Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:56:19 GMT At a time when more and more digital technologies are becoming indispensable to millions of people, the field of computer science (CS) is in trouble. Enrollment and retention of CS students, particularly those historically underrepresented in the field (women, African-Americans, Native-Americans, and Hispanics) has declined sharply. According to the Computing Research Association, CS enrollment in the U.S. was at its peak in 2000, with 15,958 undergrads. By 2006, enrollment declined by roughly half: 7,798 undergrads. And enrollment among already-underrepresented groups has dropped even more sharply.We hope to address this problem (and potential shortage) with a variety of programs beyond our scholarship initiatives. Recently, our educational outreach group, University Programs, and Diversity and Talent Inclusion teams joined forces to create the Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI). This special institute included an interactive and collaborative CS curriculum, as well as a living-learning residential experience for student networking. We chose 17 college sophomores, all aspiring computer scientists, to attend the all-expenses-paid CSSI in Mountain View from August 3?15.Our goals for the institute:To enrich the skills of students early in their CS studies (or at risk of leaving the major) in an effort to increase the pipeline into the CS major and boost retentionTo provide a social and professional network for underrepresented (women, Hispanic, African-American, and/or Native-American) technology students To empower students, giving them the tools, motivation and confidence to continue with CS studiesTo show students daily life at Google and the amazing applications of CS that occur hereThe CSSI faculty was comprised of Google engineers and our educational outreach group. We paired students with Google "buddies" - engineers with whom they can develop a long-term advising relationship. Students heard from professionals from across the technology industry and academia about the many things they can do with a CS degree.Students worked in teams to build a completely interactive Web 2.0 website, keeping in mind both practical programming skills and the theory behind it.We plan to keep in touch with these students across their college careers, and to encourage future participants to complete their CS work and join the community of computer scientists.Posted by Rebecca Selvenis, University Programs Specialist Googleblog.Blogspot.Com Strengthening the study of computer science {new window}   Googleblog.Blogspot.Com - At a time when more and more digital technologies are becoming indispensable to millions of people, the field of computer science (CS) is in trouble. Enrollment and retention of CS students, particularly those historically underrepresented in the field (women, African-Americans, Native-Americans, and Hispanics) has declined sharply. According to the Computing Research Association, CS enrollment in the U.S. was at its peak in 2000, with 15,958 undergrads. By 2006, enrollment declined by roughly half: 7,798 undergrads. And enrollment among already-underrepresented groups has dropped even more sharply.We hope to address this problem (and potential shortage) with a variety of programs beyond our scholarship initiatives. Recently, our educational outreach group, University Programs, and Diversity and Talent Inclusion teams joined forces to create the Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI). This special institute included an interactive and collaborative CS curriculum, as well as a living-learning residential experience for student networking. We chose 17 college sophomores, all aspiring computer scientists, to attend the all-expenses-paid CSSI in Mountain View from August 3?15.Our goals for the institute:To enrich the skills of students early in their CS studies (or at risk of leaving the major) in an effort to increase the pipeline into the CS major and boost retentionTo provide a social and professional network for underrepresented (women, Hispanic, African-American, and/or Native-American) technology students To empower students, giving them the tools, motivation and confidence to continue with CS studiesTo show students daily life at Google and the amazing applications of CS that occur hereThe CSSI faculty was comprised of Google engineers and our educational outreach group. We paired students with Google "buddies" - engineers with whom they can develop a long-term advising relationship. Students heard from professionals from across the technology industry and academia about the many things they can do with a CS degree.Students worked in teams to build a completely interactive Web 2.0 website, keeping in mind both practical programming skills and the theory behind it.We plan to keep in touch with these students across their college careers, and to encourage future participants to complete their CS work and join the community of computer scientists.Posted by Rebecca Selvenis, University Programs Specialist
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]]> Computers > Internet > Searching > Search Engines > Google {SOFTWARE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/software/operating-systems/linux/news-and-media/bell-labs-kills-fundamental-physics-research-2008081101.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/software/operating-systems/linux/news-and-media/bell-labs-kills-fundamental-physics-research-2008081101.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:19:00 GMT An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Wired: "After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab. Alcatel-Lucent, the parent company of Bell Labs, is pulling out of basic science, material physics and semiconductor research and will instead be focusing on more immediately marketable areas such as networking, high-speed electronics, wireless, nanotechnology and software." Jamie points out this list of Bell Labs' accomplishments at Wikipedia, including little things like the UNIX operating system.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Science.Slashdot.Org Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research {new window}   Science.Slashdot.Org - An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Wired: "After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab. Alcatel-Lucent, the parent company of Bell Labs, is pulling out of basic science, material physics and semiconductor research and will instead be focusing on more immediately marketable areas such as networking, high-speed electronics, wireless, nanotechnology and software." Jamie points out this list of Bell Labs' accomplishments at Wikipedia, including little things like the UNIX operating system.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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]]> Computers > Software > Operating Systems > Linux > News and Media {TECHNOLOGY > INVENTION AND INNOVATION} - Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/technology/invention-and-innovation/bell-labs-kills-fundamental-physics-research-20080816428.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/technology/invention-and-innovation/bell-labs-kills-fundamental-physics-research-20080816428.htm Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:29:00 GMT Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab, a Nobel Prize magnet for its countless contributions to computer science and technology, is shut down as its parent company shifts from basic science research to more marketable areas such as networking and nanotechnology. Blog.Wired.Com Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research {new window}   Blog.Wired.Com - Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab, a Nobel Prize magnet for its countless contributions to computer science and technology, is shut down as its parent company shifts from basic science research to more marketable areas such as networking and nanotechnology.
Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research | Gadget Lab from Wired.com {...} After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics {...}
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]]> Science > Technology > Invention and Innovation {PROGRAMMING > RESOURCES} - Teaching Mobile Computing to Generation C: A Conversation With Java Champion Qusay Mahmoud http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/programming/languages/java/resources/teaching-mobile-computing-to-generation-c-a-conversation-20080843426.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/programming/languages/java/resources/teaching-mobile-computing-to-generation-c-a-conversation-20080843426.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:12:05 GMT Java Champion Qusay Mahmoud discusses ways to integrate mobile devices into the computer science curriculum -- and incur the gratitude of students. Java.Sun.Com Teaching Mobile Computing to Generation C: A Conversation With Java Champion Qusay Mahmoud {new window}   Java.Sun.Com - Java Champion Qusay Mahmoud discusses ways to integrate mobile devices into the computer science curriculum -- and incur the gratitude of students.
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]]> Computers > Programming > Languages > Java > Resources {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - ~❊~ 2BD/2BA Condo - ROOM AVAILABLE ~❊~ (rohnert pk / cotati) $600 http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/10058-2bd-2ba-condo-room-available-10058-rohnert-20080889212.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/10058-2bd-2ba-condo-room-available-10058-rohnert-20080889212.htm Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:57:51 GMT Hello All, My name is Marissa, I'm 27, recent grad of Computer Science at SSU. I'll admit I can be a geek, but I'm not too geeky. I'm laid-back, clean and responsible. When I'm not working, I like to chill and socialize with friends. I'm a non-smoker and I don't do drugs, but I sometimes go out for an occasional drink. I am looking for a new roommate because my previous roommate graduated and moved out. I would prefer someone in their 20s, but no preference for male or female. Please feel free to email for more information. Thanks, Marissa This privately-owned condo is located in the Windsong complex on Camino Colegio in Rohnert Park. About 1 1/2 miles from Sonoma State University. Available: August, 2008 Rent: $600/month (Co-Signers accepted) Deposit: $300 Rental Agreement: Month-to-Month, 6-Month (with option to extend) Utilities (included in rent): Water & Garbage Utilities (Basic Cable TV, PG&E, & DSL): about $40-60/month NO Smoking (this includes outside smoking) NO Drugs NO Pets Room Features: • UNFURNISHED • Private bathroom • 2 Closets - 1 sliding door clothes closet with built-in organizer, 1 linen closet • Private Phone/Cable TV/DSL hookups Condo Features: • 2 Bedrooms/2 Bathrooms • Private deck • European-style cabinetry • Ceramic Tile Entry • Pergo Kitchen Floor • Glass Shower Doors • Wall-to-Wall Carpeting • Washer & Dryer (in the condo) • Uncovered Parking w/Parking Permit Community Features: • Pool • 2 Whirlpool Spas • 2 Lighted Tennis Courts • Clubhouse with kitchen facilities (available to rent for events) • Fitness Room • Tanning Bed • On-Site Laundry Facilities http://www.flickr.com/photos/windsong_condo/ Thanks, Marissa Sfbay.Craigslist.Org ~❊~ 2BD/2BA Condo - ROOM AVAILABLE ~❊~ (rohnert pk / cotati) $600 {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Hello All, My name is Marissa, I'm 27, recent grad of Computer Science at SSU. I'll admit I can be a geek, but I'm not too geeky. I'm laid-back, clean and responsible. When I'm not working, I like to chill and socialize with friends. I'm a non-smoker and I don't do drugs, but I sometimes go out for an occasional drink. I am looking for a new roommate because my previous roommate graduated and moved out. I would prefer someone in their 20s, but no preference for male or female. Please feel free to email for more information. Thanks, Marissa This privately-owned condo is located in the Windsong complex on Camino Colegio in Rohnert Park. About 1 1/2 miles from Sonoma State University. Available: August, 2008 Rent: $600/month (Co-Signers accepted) Deposit: $300 Rental Agreement: Month-to-Month, 6-Month (with option to extend) Utilities (included in rent): Water & Garbage Utilities (Basic Cable TV, PG&E, & DSL): about $40-60/month NO Smoking (this includes outside smoking) NO Drugs NO Pets Room Features: • UNFURNISHED • Private bathroom • 2 Closets - 1 sliding door clothes closet with built-in organizer, 1 linen closet • Private Phone/Cable TV/DSL hookups Condo Features: • 2 Bedrooms/2 Bathrooms • Private deck • European-style cabinetry • Ceramic Tile Entry • Pergo Kitchen Floor • Glass Shower Doors • Wall-to-Wall Carpeting • Washer & Dryer (in the condo) • Uncovered Parking w/Parking Permit Community Features: • Pool • 2 Whirlpool Spas • 2 Lighted Tennis Courts • Clubhouse with kitchen facilities (available to rent for events) • Fitness Room • Tanning Bed • On-Site Laundry Facilities http://www.flickr.com/photos/windsong_condo/ Thanks, Marissa
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {SCIENCE} - Fly Like a (Virtual) Eagle: 'iBird' Launched http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/fly-like-a-virtual-eagle-ibird-launched-20080831910.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/fly-like-a-virtual-eagle-ibird-launched-20080831910.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:24:06 GMT NYU computer science department shows off high-flying educational tool. Abcnews.Go.Com Fly Like a (Virtual) Eagle: 'iBird' Launched {new window}   Abcnews.Go.Com - NYU computer science department shows off high-flying educational tool.
ABC News: Fly Like a (Virtual) Eagle: 'iBird' Launched {...} The iBird is first in NYU's SPIRAL project to give classrooms affordable, interactive science learning tools. {...}
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]]> Science {INTERNET > GOOGLE} - Introduction to Google Ranking http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/introduction-to-google-ranking-2008089451.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/introduction-to-google-ranking-2008089451.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:25:43 GMT Posted by Amit Singhal, Google FellowIn May, Udi Manber introduced our search quality group, the group responsible for the ranking of search results. He introduced various teams within "Quality" (as we like to call the group) including Core Ranking, International Search, User Interfaces, Evaluation, Webspam, and other teams. In this post, I want to tell you more about one of these: the Core Ranking team.Let me introduce myself. My name is Amit Singhal. I'm a Google Fellow in charge of the ranking team at Google. I've worked in the field of search for the past eighteen years, having been introduced to search in 1990 as a graduate student in computer science. In the academic world, the field of search is known as Information Retrieval (or IR). After spending a decade as an IR researcher, I came to Google in 2000, and have worked on Google ranking ever since.Google ranking is a collection of algorithms used to find the most relevant documents for a user query. We do this for hundreds of millions of queries a day, from a collection of billions and billions of pages. These algorithms are run for every query entered into most of Google's search services. While our web search is the most used Google search service and the most widely known, the same ranking algorithms are also used - with some modifications - for other Google search services, including Images, News, YouTube, Maps, Product Search, Book Search, and more.The most common question I get asked about Google's ranking is "how do you do it?" Of course, there is a lot that goes into building a state-of-the-art ranking system like ours, and I will delve deeper into the technology behind it in a later post. Today, I would like to briefly share the philosophies behind Google ranking:1) Best locally relevant results served globally.2) Keep it simple.3) No manual intervention.The first one is obvious. Given our passion for search, we absolutely want to make sure that every user query gets the most relevant results. We often call this the "no query left behind" principle. Whenever we return less than ideal results for any query in any language in any country - and we do (search is by no means a solved problem) - we use that as an inspiration for future improvements.The second principle seems obvious. Isn't it the desire of all system architects to keep their systems simple? Well, as search systems go, given the wide variety of user queries we have to respond to in multiple languages, it is easy to go down the path where more and more complexity creeps into the system to serve the next incremental fraction of the queries. We work very hard to keep our system simple without compromising on the quality of results. This is an ongoing effort, and a worthy one. We make about ten ranking changes every week and simplicity is a big consideration in launching every change. Our engineers understand exactly why a page was ranked the way it was for a given query. This simple understandable system has allowed us innovate quickly, and it shows. The "keep it simple" philosophy has served us well.No discussion of Google's ranking would be complete without asking the common - but misguided! :) - question: "Does Google manually edit its results?" Let me just answer that with our third philosophy: no manual intervention. In our view, the web is built by people. You are the ones creating pages and linking to pages. We are using all this human contribution through our algorithms. The final ordering of the results is decided by our algorithms using the contributions of the greater Internet community, not manually by us. We believe that the subjective judgment of any individual is, well ... subjective, and information distilled by our algorithms from the vast amount of human knowledge encoded in the web pages and their links is better than individual subjectivity.The second reason we have a principle against manually adjusting our results is that often a broken query is just a symptom of a potential improvement to be made to our ranking algorithm. Improving the underlying algorithm not only improves that one query, it improves an entire class of queries, and often for all languages. I should add, however, that there are clear written policies for websites recommended by Google, and we do take action on sites that are in violation of our policies or for a small number of other reasons (e.g. legal requirements, child porn, viruses/malware, etc).Stay tuned for my followup post, where I will discuss in detail the technologies behind our ranking and show examples of several state-of-the-art ranking techniques in action. Let me just conclude this post by saying, our passion for search is stronger than ever - and as a search researcher, I have the best job in the world :-). Googleblog.Blogspot.Com Introduction to Google Ranking {new window}   Googleblog.Blogspot.Com - Posted by Amit Singhal, Google FellowIn May, Udi Manber introduced our search quality group, the group responsible for the ranking of search results. He introduced various teams within "Quality" (as we like to call the group) including Core Ranking, International Search, User Interfaces, Evaluation, Webspam, and other teams. In this post, I want to tell you more about one of these: the Core Ranking team.Let me introduce myself. My name is Amit Singhal. I'm a Google Fellow in charge of the ranking team at Google. I've worked in the field of search for the past eighteen years, having been introduced to search in 1990 as a graduate student in computer science. In the academic world, the field of search is known as Information Retrieval (or IR). After spending a decade as an IR researcher, I came to Google in 2000, and have worked on Google ranking ever since.Google ranking is a collection of algorithms used to find the most relevant documents for a user query. We do this for hundreds of millions of queries a day, from a collection of billions and billions of pages. These algorithms are run for every query entered into most of Google's search services. While our web search is the most used Google search service and the most widely known, the same ranking algorithms are also used - with some modifications - for other Google search services, including Images, News, YouTube, Maps, Product Search, Book Search, and more.The most common question I get asked about Google's ranking is "how do you do it?" Of course, there is a lot that goes into building a state-of-the-art ranking system like ours, and I will delve deeper into the technology behind it in a later post. Today, I would like to briefly share the philosophies behind Google ranking:1) Best locally relevant results served globally.2) Keep it simple.3) No manual intervention.The first one is obvious. Given our passion for search, we absolutely want to make sure that every user query gets the most relevant results. We often call this the "no query left behind" principle. Whenever we return less than ideal results for any query in any language in any country - and we do (search is by no means a solved problem) - we use that as an inspiration for future improvements.The second principle seems obvious. Isn't it the desire of all system architects to keep their systems simple? Well, as search systems go, given the wide variety of user queries we have to respond to in multiple languages, it is easy to go down the path where more and more complexity creeps into the system to serve the next incremental fraction of the queries. We work very hard to keep our system simple without compromising on the quality of results. This is an ongoing effort, and a worthy one. We make about ten ranking changes every week and simplicity is a big consideration in launching every change. Our engineers understand exactly why a page was ranked the way it was for a given query. This simple understandable system has allowed us innovate quickly, and it shows. The "keep it simple" philosophy has served us well.No discussion of Google's ranking would be complete without asking the common - but misguided! :) - question: "Does Google manually edit its results?" Let me just answer that with our third philosophy: no manual intervention. In our view, the web is built by people. You are the ones creating pages and linking to pages. We are using all this human contribution through our algorithms. The final ordering of the results is decided by our algorithms using the contributions of the greater Internet community, not manually by us. We believe that the subjective judgment of any individual is, well ... subjective, and information distilled by our algorithms from the vast amount of human knowledge encoded in the web pages and their links is better than individual subjectivity.The second reason we have a principle against manually adjusting our results is that often a broken query is just a symptom of a potential improvement to be made to our ranking algorithm. Improving the underlying algorithm not only improves that one query, it improves an entire class of queries, and often for all languages. I should add, however, that there are clear written policies for websites recommended by Google, and we do take action on sites that are in violation of our policies or for a small number of other reasons (e.g. legal requirements, child porn, viruses/malware, etc).Stay tuned for my followup post, where I will discuss in detail the technologies behind our ranking and show examples of several state-of-the-art ranking techniques in action. Let me just conclude this post by saying, our passion for search is stronger than ever - and as a search researcher, I have the best job in the world :-).
Official Google Blog: Introduction to Google Ranking {...}
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]]> Computers > Internet > Searching > Search Engines > Google {INTERNET > GOOGLE} - Introducing our European 2008 Anita Borg Scholars http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/introducing-our-european-2008-anita-borg-scholars-2008081613.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/introducing-our-european-2008-anita-borg-scholars-2008081613.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:25:40 GMT Posted by Beate List, University Programme, ZurichA few months ago we had the great pleasure of announcing the fifth class of Anita Borg Scholars in the U.S. and our first class of Scholars in Canada. Now it's the Europeans' turn.This scholarship program, originally established in the U.S. to honor the work of Anita Borg and to recognize outstanding young women scholars in computer science and related fields, expanded to Europe most recently. Nearly 300 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 31 countries applied for the award. Sixty-three finalists were selected; 20 women received a ?5,000 scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year. The remaining 43 finalists received a ?1,000 award.Each of the finalists visited our Engineering Centre in Zurich for our annual Scholars' Retreat, which included tech talks, career panels and social fun. All of it was a way for the young women to share experiences and come together as leaders in the computer science field.Visit the Google Europe Anita Borg Scholarship page for more on the program. Hearty congratulations to these winners!The 2008 Europe Anita Borg ScholarsCynthia Liem, Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsDespina Michael - University of Cyprus, CyprusDina Petri - University of Reading, UK; Aristotle University, Greece; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SpainInbal Talgam -Weizmann Institute of Science, IsraelKaty Howland - University of Sussex, UKKerstin Wendt - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainKsenia Rogova - Petrozavodsk State University, RussiaMirela Ben-Chen - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IsraelNadezhda Baldina - Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, RussiaOlga Boronenko - University of Reading, UK; Aristotle University, Greece; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SpainPatricia Moore - Dublin City University, IrelandRebecca Stewart - Queen Mary, University of London, UKSara Elisabeth Adams - University of Oxford, UKSeda Gürses - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BelgiumSilvia Breu - University of Cambridge, UKSiska Fitrianie - Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsStefanie Jegelka - Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, GermanySvetlana Obraztsova - Steklov Institute of Mathematics, RussiaSylvia Rueda - University of Nottingham, UKUlyana Tikhonova - Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, RussiaUpdate: Added photo. Googleblog.Blogspot.Com Introducing our European 2008 Anita Borg Scholars {new window}   Googleblog.Blogspot.Com - Posted by Beate List, University Programme, ZurichA few months ago we had the great pleasure of announcing the fifth class of Anita Borg Scholars in the U.S. and our first class of Scholars in Canada. Now it's the Europeans' turn.This scholarship program, originally established in the U.S. to honor the work of Anita Borg and to recognize outstanding young women scholars in computer science and related fields, expanded to Europe most recently. Nearly 300 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 31 countries applied for the award. Sixty-three finalists were selected; 20 women received a ?5,000 scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year. The remaining 43 finalists received a ?1,000 award.Each of the finalists visited our Engineering Centre in Zurich for our annual Scholars' Retreat, which included tech talks, career panels and social fun. All of it was a way for the young women to share experiences and come together as leaders in the computer science field.Visit the Google Europe Anita Borg Scholarship page for more on the program. Hearty congratulations to these winners!The 2008 Europe Anita Borg ScholarsCynthia Liem, Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsDespina Michael - University of Cyprus, CyprusDina Petri - University of Reading, UK; Aristotle University, Greece; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SpainInbal Talgam -Weizmann Institute of Science, IsraelKaty Howland - University of Sussex, UKKerstin Wendt - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainKsenia Rogova - Petrozavodsk State University, RussiaMirela Ben-Chen - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IsraelNadezhda Baldina - Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, RussiaOlga Boronenko - University of Reading, UK; Aristotle University, Greece; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SpainPatricia Moore - Dublin City University, IrelandRebecca Stewart - Queen Mary, University of London, UKSara Elisabeth Adams - University of Oxford, UKSeda Gürses - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BelgiumSilvia Breu - University of Cambridge, UKSiska Fitrianie - Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsStefanie Jegelka - Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, GermanySvetlana Obraztsova - Steklov Institute of Mathematics, RussiaSylvia Rueda - University of Nottingham, UKUlyana Tikhonova - Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, RussiaUpdate: Added photo.
Official Google Blog: Introducing our European 2008 Anita Borg Scholars {...}
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]]> Computers > Internet > Searching > Search Engines > Google {INTERNET > GOOGLE} - Goodbye to Randy Pausch, a great teacher http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/goodbye-to-randy-pausch-a-great-teacher-2008089676.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/goodbye-to-randy-pausch-a-great-teacher-2008089676.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:25:30 GMT Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and a good friend of Google, passed away last night. In addition to being recognized as a pioneer in virtual reality research, he became widely known as a gifted teacher and a mentor to many. Millions of people saw his inspiring "Last Lecture" on YouTube. Read more about Randy and his contributions on our Research Blog.Posted by Kevin McCurley, Research Scientist Googleblog.Blogspot.Com Goodbye to Randy Pausch, a great teacher {new window}   Googleblog.Blogspot.Com - Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and a good friend of Google, passed away last night. In addition to being recognized as a pioneer in virtual reality research, he became widely known as a gifted teacher and a mentor to many. Millions of people saw his inspiring "Last Lecture" on YouTube. Read more about Randy and his contributions on our Research Blog.Posted by Kevin McCurley, Research Scientist
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]]> Computers > Internet > Searching > Search Engines > Google {PROGRAMMING > RESOURCES} - From Java Platform Improvements to Better Teaching: A Conversation With Java Champion Cay Horstmann http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/programming/languages/java/resources/from-java-platform-improvements-to-better-teaching-2008086106.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/programming/languages/java/resources/from-java-platform-improvements-to-better-teaching-2008086106.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:47:16 GMT Java Champion Cay Horstmann, a computer science professor and author of noted books on Java programming, discusses needed platform improvements, JavaServer Faces technology, developer challenges, and ways to inspire students. Java.Sun.Com From Java Platform Improvements to Better Teaching: A Conversation With Java Champion Cay Horstmann {new window}   Java.Sun.Com - Java Champion Cay Horstmann, a computer science professor and author of noted books on Java programming, discusses needed platform improvements, JavaServer Faces technology, developer challenges, and ways to inspire students.
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