Google has big ideas. Books as a corpus of human knowledge. All books- buy anywhere, read anywhere, sell electronic books from kiosks in every public library. According to James, talented engineers get 20% of their time off to create things. I guess we can substitute the word thesis for book, though he did not say this.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Plenary Session: James Crawford, Engineering Director for Google Books
Google has big ideas. Books as a corpus of human knowledge. All books- buy anywhere, read anywhere, sell electronic books from kiosks in every public library. According to James, talented engineers get 20% of their time off to create things. I guess we can substitute the word thesis for book, though he did not say this.
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may we have the electronic version of this keynote ?
ReplyDeleteat least for etd2010 attendees.
thks