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(Cross-posted with the Google Students Blog ) We know firsthand how vital a good science or math education is to building products that change the world and enrich peoples’ lives. We’re committed to supporting students in their pursuit of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields — particularly those from traditionally under-represented backgrounds. Over time, we’ve dedicated time, people, and financial resources to organizations, events and schools to help advance this mission — and we’re excited to share that we rounded out 2009 with a donation of $8 million to a variety of organizations who share our dedication to this cause.
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Supporting students from under-represented backgrounds in the pursuit of a technical education
Today we’re excited to introduce a new stable release of Google Chrome for Windows, which includes two of the browser’s most frequently requested features: extensions and bookmark sync. Extensions let you add new features and functions to your browser.
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Extensions, bookmark sync and more for Google Chrome
Last year at our second Searchology event, we announced Google Squared and Rich Snippets, two approaches to improve search by better understanding the web. Today, we’re kicking off the new year with two improvements based on those technologies
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Understanding the web to make search more relevant
Android was developed with one simple idea: Open up mobile devices to enable greater innovation that will benefit users everywhere. We first executed on this vision a little over a year ago, when we launched Android on one device with one operator in one country. Today, we have 20 devices with 59 operators in 48 countries and 19 languages
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Our new approach to buying a mobile phone
Whenever I go home to visit my parents, I always assume a handful of new roles — I become the after-dinner dishwasher, the family chauffeur, and appropriately, my parents’ personal tech support. As I go home for the holidays this week, I’ll likely be asked to help fix the webcam that “used to be there” or make the font size “so I can see it again.” I’ll also perform a few regular maintenance tasks that my parents don’t even know to ask about, such as running a virus scan, uninstalling unused applications and upgrading their software to the latest versions. I know this phenomenon isn’t unique to just my family
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Unofficial tech support returns home for the holidays
Reposted from the Huffington Post To the age-old question — “What do you want to do when you grow up?” — children today give many modern answers: “Help feed hungry families.” “Prevent and cure diseases.” “Find sources of renewable energy.” “Understand the universe.” One clear path leads to each of these aspirations: the study of computer science. Computer models and applications enable farmers to increase crop yields, HIV-positive patients in Africa to receive lifesaving treatment, industry to reduce its carbon footprint, and explorers to study the stars.
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Computing Our Children’s Future
Today, at the International Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, we demonstrated a new technology prototype that enables online, global-scale observation and measurement of changes in the earth’s forests. We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world’s rapidly-disappearing forests. Emissions from tropical deforestation are comparable to the emissions of all of the European Union, and are greater than those of all cars, trucks, planes, ships and trains worldwide.
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Seeing the forest through the cloud
(Cross-posted from the Google Photos Blog ) I used to take a lot of photos with the best intentions of sharing them with friends and family. But most of the time they just sat on my camera’s memory card, never quite making it to my computer, let alone to my friends and family. Three weeks ago we made extra storage more affordable for Picasa Web Albums and Gmail, and now we’re making it easier to get your photos in the cloud and share them, right in time for holiday picture snapping.
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Happy holidays from Picasa Web Albums and Eye-Fi
Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world’s information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it. That’s why today, at the Computer History Museum , we’re excited to share a few new innovations in the areas of real-time, mobile and social search that we feel are important steps in the evolution of information access. First, we’re introducing new features that bring your search results to life with a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web
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Relevance meets the real-time web
(Cross-posted with the Google Students Blog ) Today, we’re excited to announce the most recent addition to our scholarship programs in Europe, the Google Europe Scholarship for Students with Disabilities. This scholarship is designed for students with disabilities who are pursuing university degrees in the field of computer science at a university anywhere in the European Union, plus Switzerland and Israel. Multiple scholarships will be awarded based on the strength of candidates’ academic performance and demonstrated passion for computer science
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Introducing the Europe Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
(Cross-posted from the Google Photos Blog ) People today have more personal data online than ever before. More and more people are starting to move the bulk of their data off the desktop and into servers “in the cloud,” where it’s accessible from any computer or mobile device and easily shareable with friends and family. At the same time, digital photo technology is making it easier and cheaper than ever to take a lot of pictures, and client software like Picasa 3.5 makes it easier than ever to move photos from your camera to the cloud
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Twice the storage for a quarter of the price
As part of our “Go Mobile” week of tips and tricks, we’re recapping some of our latest Google Search for mobile features. All of these new features either make mobile search more complete, easier to use or more local. Complete When you enter a query on Google.com on your phone, you access the same comprehensive index of the web as when you use Google.com on your computer — including universal search results such as images, local listings, news, blogs, videos, products and more
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Making mobile search complete, easy and local
If you’ve read a recent piece I co-wrote in Communications of the ACM (membership required), you know that the States largely drive education decisions in the US. Because of this, our community has to play “wack-a-mole” when we hear about issues that pop up in the fifty states affecting computer science education. Luckily, the Computer Science Teachers Association Leadership Cohort is building much of this network, so when Kansas the Board of Regents decided to eliminate computing courses from the core student requirements, we could weigh in with the State
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Political Action in Kanasa
Hardly a day goes by without one of my e-newsletters posting a feature about special programs designed to interest students (particularly young students) in pursuing a career in Computer Science and/or the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. As a lifelong educator with a love of the STEM disciplines as well as of computer science, this is so gratifying to me! We certainly need to interest students in all of these career fields..all students, but particularly female and minority students.
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Capturing Students’ Interest in Computer Science
The trend in blogs, the internet and news sites lately is to write articles about the economy. Instead of that however, I thought I would use the opportunity to try to encourage people who might be considering studying computer science (or related related fields) to go forward and pursue education in this area. Now is an especially good time to get your foot in the door since admissions have generally been low the last few years and there are plenty of jobs, which is more than we can say about many other areas
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Top 10 Reasons to Study Computer Science in 2009