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Jeff Cameron is the Google Student Ambassador at the University of Waterloo, where he studies Computer Science and Math. As part of his role as ambassador, he recently hosted a great event focused on Artificial Intelligence, and we wanted to share his story with you here. In the 2009 Artificial Intelligence Contest at the University of Waterloo, participants used both simple and sophisticated AI techniques to create programs that would intelligently play a simple game. The submitted programs competed in head-to-head tournaments to see how they all ranked compared to one another. Contestants could re-submit their code on the contest website as often as they liked, and the online leaderboard was updated once every hour with fresh tournament results. A screenshot of the hourly leaderboard after the contest had been open for a few days. The contest was initially supposed to stay open for two weeks, but was extended by another week due to unexpectedly high participation. Almost 300 participants were involved, with about 150 people submitting their entries to the final tournament. The contest webpage received over 50,000 hits from 38 countries. The final tournament took place at the Contest Finale Code Party, held at the University of Waterloo. Pictures from the Contest Finale Codeparty. The very talented Mr. Jesse Onland serenades some happy coders with his mad banjo skills. Some contestants huddle while adding the finishing touches to their entries. The contest organizer (me), with this year’s grand champion, Alex Stan. Our congratulations goes out to the winner of this year’s Google Artificial Intelligence Contest, Alexandru Stan! A big thank you also goes out to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club for organizing and hosting the contest. Full contest results are available here . Posted by Jeff Cameron, Google Campus Ambassador at University of Waterlo

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“Students have first hand experience with real clients and real budgets to get real results. Is there a better way to gain experience with the real world?” “The Challenge energized me and my students. The ability to work with a real-life client and spend “real money” on Google AdWords was unique and exciting.” Registration for the 2010 Google Online Marketing Challenge is now open! The Google Online Marketing Challenge is a global student competition open to a ny higher education institution anywhere in the world. The 2009 Challenge had over 10,000 students in 57 countries competing and we want this year’s Challenge to grow even more …. please help us to get the word out! How it works …. Teams of 3-6 students receive US$200 of online advertising with AdWords and then find local businesses to work with to devise an online marketing campaign. Teams outline a strategy, run their campaign, assess the results and provide the business with recommendations to further develop their online marketing. The winners are judged by an international panel of independent academics. The challenge is a great way to get you and your classmates involved in the quickly evolving world of online marketing. It’s a skill you’ll want to have as you graduate and prepare to enter a tough job market and it’s definitely a fun way to gain real-world experience with a real client. Registration …. Your professor, lecturer or whoever teaches you, enters their student team into the Challenge. If you think your p rofessors, lecturers or tutors might be interested in signing their classes up for the Challenge, let them know about this opportunity! Your professor can obtain more information in the Academic Guide ( http://www.google.com/ onlinechallenge/students_ guides.html ) which is filled with information your professor will want to know to decide if the Challenge is right for their class. The Challenge is open to any university, any discipline, at the graduate or undergraduate level in any country. Timeline …. Registration closes: January 22, 2010 Challenge starts: January 28, 2010 Challenge ends: June 4, 2010 Winners announced: July 2010 Register now a t www.google.com/onlinechallenge . Posted by Meghan O’Farrell, Talent & Outreach Programs Specialist

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2010 Google Online Marketing Challenge

Last year we launched the Google Online Marketing Challenge — a global university competition that gives undergraduate and post-graduate students hands-on exposure to online marketing. Working with their professors, teams receive the equivalent of US$200 to spend on Google AdWords advertising, then work with a local business to devise an effective online marketing campaign. Teams are given three weeks to mastermind the strategy before submitting a campaign report to an international judging panel of professors. Today we announce the results; our global winners come from Deakin University, Australia and were taught by Chia Yao Lee and Bardo Fraunholz . The team of Andrew Kidd, Richard Blakely, Kevin Fung, Clinton Hinze, Katalin Kish and Howard Lien worked with a local kids play center, www.littletigrrs.com.au , to create a well-crafted campaign that highly impressed our judges. Clockwise from top left: Richard Blakely, Chia Yao Lee (professor), Katalin Kish, Kevin Fung, Bardo Fraunholz (professor), Howard Lien, Andrew Kidd, Fiona and Mike (from Little Tigrrs), Clinton Hinze and Mick, The Big Hearted Tiger Read more about the challenge and the other top finishers on the Official Google Blog . We sent a survey out to every participating team, professor and business and the results were overwhelmingly positive. One professor noted, “The Google Online Marketing Challenge is among the most practical learning experiences one can offer their students. Thanks, Google!” Students seemed to agree, one commenting, “The Google Challenge enabled me to develop my online marketing and consultant skills by working with a real business. The Google Challenge has been the best assignment I have ever had!” And finally, my personal favorite favourite: “The teams have bonded and the learning process was blissful in every way! Our BEST memories ever: Thank YOU for having opened the Challenge to overseas students. It means the WORLD to us!!!” For anyone interested in competing in the 2010 Challenge, formal registrations will open later this year, but in the meantime you can register your interest . Posted by Lee Hunter, Product Marketing Manager

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It’s kids play for winning students in the 2009 Google Online Marketing Challenge

Back when I was in college (which wasn’t all that long ago), we used a command-line program called Pine to check our email. It was much faster than the school webmail, but you had to learn all these keyboard shortcuts just to get anything done. I remember sitting around the dorm, eagerly sharing tips with friends (like “Did you know that ^Y sends you to the previous message?”) Those days are over for most folks, and my friends and I now share tips with each other about how to be more efficient with Gmail. We thought lots of people would be interested in these kinds of tips, so we asked Googlers for their best tips and tricks on how they use Gmail, and put the best of these into a guide at www.gmail.com/tips , entitled “Become a Gmail Ninja.” We even made a printable version of the guide that you can pin to your wall or keep on your desk. And for the first 1024 of you who want them, we’ll send a limited-edition, laminated guide for free. Just fill out this form with your address. Sorry, we can only ship to addresses in the US. If you’re not one of the lucky 1024, don’t fret because you can still buy a laminated guide at www.barcharts.com/gmail . If you’re already a Gmail ninja and have your own tips you’d like to share, let us know and we’ll add the best ones to the online guide. *Our lawyers asked us to make sure it was clear that your contact information won’t be maintained in any way and this offer is “void where prohibited and only while supplies last.” Posted by Zach Yeskell, Gmail marketing manager

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At Google, we are committed to helping the innovators of the future make the most of their gifts. As part of this commitment to build and retain a strong and diverse talent pool in computer science, we’ve created the Google FUSE program. This summer, FUSE will provide an opportunity for successful and invested first year computer science students who are historically underrepresented in the field to connect with one another and with Google. We’ll be bringing rising college sophomores from across the US and Canada to our New York office for two days of networking, learning, and fun. Our goal is to form a network that will allow these top rising sophomores to learn about the research, academic, and industry opportunities that lead to great careers. We also want to make connections between students and Googlers who have paved this path before them. If you’re currently a first year student who has declared a CS or related major and are interested in connecting with other top students, we want to hear from you! Students from historically underrepresented groups in technology — female, Native American, African American and Hispanic students as well as students with disabilities — are encouraged to apply. Learn more at www.google.com/jobs/students/fuse. Posted by Zach Geller and Hanah Kim, University Programs Specialists

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Google for Students has made its way to Twitter ! Check out our daily updates at @googlestudents .

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We are thrilled to announce and congratulate the 2009 Google US Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship winners! The 2009 Google Anita Borg Scholarship Recipients Jennifer Roberts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sheena Lewis, Northwestern University Ramya Raghavendra, University of California-Santa Barbara Saleema Amershi, University of Washington Divya Ramachandran, University of California-Berkeley Leshell Hatley, University of Maryland College Park Sara Sinclair, Dartmouth College Mary David, University of Southern California Dana Forsthoefel, Georgia Institute of Technology Manjari Narayan, Rice University Yi-Chieh Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sarah Cooley, Oregon State University Katherine Corner, University of Colorado at Boulder Natalie Freed, Arizona State University Main Sarah Loos, Indiana University Bloomington Isabel Mattos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Norma Savage, Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico (will be attending University of California-Santa Barbara) Elaine Short, Yale University Xuexin (Alice) Zhu, Harvey Mudd College YoungJoo Jeong, Carnegie Mellon University The 2009 Google Anita Borg Scholarship Finalists Cindy Rubio Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin-Madison Maria Kazandjieva, Stanford University Rachel Sealfon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Shilpa Arora, Carnegie Mellon University Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik, University of California-Davis Kristi Morton, University of Washington Carrie Ruppar, TBD Ekaterina Gonina, University of California-Berkeley Kelli Ireland, University of Pittsburgh Xia Zhou, University of California-Santa Barbara Corey Toler-Franklin, Princeton University Chaitrali Amrutkar, Georgia Institute of Technology Krystle de Mesa, University of California , San Diego Sonal Gupta, University of Texas at Austin Sujatha Nagarajan, University of Illinois at Chicago Julia Schwarz, University of Washington Wendy Stevenson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Supriya Vadlamani, Cornell University Tracy Chou, Stanford University Alyssa Daw, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo Rachelle Fuhrer, University of California , San Diego Jennifer Harrison, Arizona State University Margaret Leibovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sneha Popley , Texas Christian University Kyle Rector , Oregon State University Jacinda Shelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sarah Shiplett, Wellesley College Manasi Vartak, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Angela Yen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Valerie Yoder, Westminster College For more information on our scholarship programs, please visit www.google.com/jobs/ scholarships Posted by Meghan O’Farrell, Talent & Outreach Programs

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Announcing the 2009 US Anita Borg Scholars

When people search for your name on Google, do they find you? A couple weeks ago, we announced that we now show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. This gives you more control over how you appear when people search for you. Your Google profile can include online photos, links to your blog or other online profiles, and ways for people to contact you — and you can restrict contact information like your address and phone number to only the people and groups you choose. Curious how this will look for a student like you? Check out a sample student profile . For more information on the Google profile, check out the blog posts on the Google Social Web blog and Gmail blog . Don’t have a profile yet? Go to www.google.com/profiles to get started. Posted by Peter Harbison, Product Marketing Manager

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