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Alex Trebek, Teachers and Googlers Unite at the Google Geo Teachers Institute

What do Alex Trebek, teachers and Googlers have in common? Last week, these individuals and groups all came together at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA to celebrate exploration and learning.Google hosted its first Geo Teachers Institute, an intensi… Continue reading

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Announcing the winners of the Google Online Marketing Challenge 2010

This year we held the third edition of the Google Online Marketing Challenge — a global university competition that gives students hands-on exposure to online marketing. Each team receives the equivalent of $200 to work with a local company and creat… Continue reading

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2010 EMEA Scholars’ Retreat: top CS students share their impressions

Back in June, our Zurich engineering headquarters welcomed 100 of EMEA’s brightest computer science students to our annual Europe, Middle East and Africa Scholars’ Retreat. Recipients of the Google Europe Scholarship for Students with Disabilities… Continue reading

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Customer Perspectives on Evaluating the Security of Going Google

Editor’s Note: Please join us for a webcast on Thursday where two Google Apps customers will share their approach to evaluating the security of Google’s cloud computing solutions. MeadWestvaco (MWV), a $6.6 billion packaging company recently consolidat… Continue reading

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Our 2010 EMEA CS4HS Awardees

We recently told you about CS4HS, our workshop program for high school and middle school computer science teachers in the U.S. We now have some additional news to share: our 2010 EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) CS4HS awardees have been selec… Continue reading

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Our commitment to the digital humanities

(Cross-posted on the Google Research Blog)It can’t have been very long after people started writing that they started to organize and comment on what was written. Look at the 10th century Venetus A manuscript, which contains scholia written fifteen … Continue reading

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Going Google: a webinar with Brown University

UPDATE, 07/14/2010: Please note that we have postponed this webinar until Wednesday, August 18. Please register here to confirm your participation in this event. Thank you and we look forward to sharing Brown University’s experience deploying Google Ap… Continue reading

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CS4HS: helping high school teachers reach their potential

Computer science is a tough field to teach, especially at the high school level. Not only do you need to persuade teenagers that coding isn’t too geeky to attempt, but since CS is a growing field, it’s hard for teachers to keep up with all the late… Continue reading

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