Google Info Session/Tech Talk
Date
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Location
Wesbrook 100
Google Lightning Talk Series
2 google engineers + 89 minutes + free food (nom nom!)
FEATURING....
Kelly Poon,Software Engineer - Kelly is onGoogle's "did you mean" spelling correction team.She'll talk about how to write a query spelling corrector, and what it's like to be a Software Engineer at Google!
Bartholomew Furrow, Software Engineer- UBC Alumus! Engineers at Google are encouraged to spend 20% of their time working on side projects; Bartholomew will talk about spending his "20% time" developing and runningGoogle Code Jam, a programming competition motivated by contests he participated in while at UBC. He'll also discuss his 80% project, in which he enhances machinelearning algorithmsthat help to run over a billion ad auctions each day.
*Eating free food and getting swag is mandatory.
Bring a resume if you'd like.