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Imposter: Google to Open Research Facility in Pa.
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Fri Dec 16 08:45:11 2005
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:43:29 GMT
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All:
I did not sent this crap to the list.
As has happened before, someone obviously thinks it's funny to
spam the list from a web-based e-mailer at tribuneinteractive
with my name.
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Google to Open Research Facility in Pa. =
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By DANIEL LOVERING
AP Business Writer
December 15, 2005, 10:27 PM EST
PITTSBURGH -- Google Inc., the leading online search engine company, wil=
l open a new engineering and research office in Pittsburgh next year to =
be headed by a Carnegie Mellon University professor, the company said Th=
ursday. =
The facility will be charged with creating software search tools for Goo=
gle. It is expected to create as many as 100 new high-tech jobs in the P=
ittsburgh area over the next few years, said Craig Nevill-Manning, direc=
tor of Google's New York engineering office. =
The office will be headed by Andrew Moore, a Carnegie Mellon professor o=
f computer science and robotics who currently runs a research laboratory=
of 30 students, programmers and faculty members. Moore, 40, is an exper=
t in data mining and artificial intelligence. =
"Andrew Moore has built his career on the twin challenges of developing =
techniques to extract patterns from large data sets and applying these m=
achine learning methods to real-life problems," said Randal Bryant, the =
dean of Carnegie Mellon's computer science school. =
The office will be one of several Google has opened near universities. =
The company recently joined Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. in=
backing a $7.5 million Internet research laboratory at the University o=
f California, Berkeley. It also has facilities in New York, Phoenix, San=
ta Monica, Calif., and Mountain View, Calif., where the company is based=
. =
Google has overseas offices in Japan, Switzerland and India. =
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Google: http://www.google.com =
Carnegie Mellon University: http://www.cmu.edu =
Copyright (c) 2005, The Associated Press =
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