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Google I/O is Google's largest developer event, which is usually held in May at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View. Google Summer of Code is a mentoring program to find students for open source projects. In 2016, the program received nearly 18,980 applications. Google Code Jam is an international programming competition.
The Google Earth API was a free beta service, allowing users to place a version of Google Earth into web pages. The API enabled sophisticated 3D map applications to be built. [ 84 ] At its unveiling at Google's 2008 I/O developer conference, the company showcased potential applications such as a game where the player controlled a milktruck atop ...
Rebecca Moore (scientist) Rebecca Moore in 2016, wearing her Rachel Carson Award medal. Rebecca Moore (born 1955) [1] is an American software engineer, director of Google Earth, and director and founder of the Google Earth Outreach and Google Earth Engine computer mapping projects. [2]
Brian McClendon. Brian A McClendon (born 1964) is an American software executive, engineer, and inventor. [1] He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc., a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004 [2][3] to produce Google Earth. Keyhole itself was spun off from another company called Intrinsic ...
Terravision (computer program) Terravision is a 3D mapping software developed in 1993 by the German company ART+COM in Berlin as a "networked virtual representation of the Earth based on satellite images, aerial shots, altitude data and architectural data". [1] Development of the project was supported by the Deutsche Post (now Deutsche Telekom ...
App Engine are web apps that run on the Google App Engine, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud computing platform which allows web developers to run their websites in Google datacenters. [10] These web apps cannot take advantage of APIs to manipulate services such as TaskQueue (a distributed queue), BigQuery (a scalable database based on ...
Made with Code is an initiative launched by Google on July 19 2014. Google aimed to empower young women in middle and high schools with computer programming skills. Made with Code was created after Google's own research found out that encouragement and exposure are the critical factors that would influence young females to pursue computer science. [1]
A Google Developers Expert (GDE) is a person recognized by Google as having exemplary expertise in Google Developer and open-source technologies and products. [1] GDEs are awarded by membership in the Google Developers Experts program, established and administered by Google. GDEs have a tenure of one year which can be extended upon continuous ...