[LINK] Google on Mobile Web in Canberra

[Tom Worthington]

James McGill from Google will talk on "Designing for the Mobile Web"
(along with Nigel Tao on "Go Programming Language") at the Australian
National University in Canberra, 29 June 2010:
<http://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/more/SID/2640>.

By the way, I have been teaching mobile web design at ANU: 
<http://tomw.net.au/2009/wd/>.

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     Google ANU campus tech talk
     Nigel Tao, James McGill (Google)
     COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR

     DATE: 2010-07-29
     TIME: 12:00:00 - 14:00:00
     LOCATION: Engineering Lecture Theatre
     CONTACT: matt.gray at anu.edu.au

     ABSTRACT:
     The Go Programming Language presented by Nigel Tao, Software
Engineer. Go is a compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming
language developed by Google Inc. Go was officially announced in
November 2009, with implementations released for the Linux and Mac OS X
platforms.

     Designing for the Mobile Web presented by James McGill, Software
Engineer. Rich (Javascript) web applications face a challenge in
remaining performant when accessed on mobile devices, such as Android or
iPhone handsets. This talk includes a discussion of the challenges
facing mobile web developers, and covers various methods for increasing
mobile web application performance, based on the experiences of the
Google Maps API team in designing version 3 of the Google Maps API.

     Who: This talk is of interest to the entire school, students
(UGrad, PGrad) & faculty alike.

     To attend: To help us anticipate numbers, please register your
interest at http://bit.ly/9RfohY

     Where: Engineering Lecture Theatre - Building 32

     When: Thursday 29th July, 2010, 12 - 2pm Tech talk will be one hour
followed by pizza social.

     Many thanks

     The Google Australia University Programs team

To attend: To help us anticipate numbers, please register your interest
at http://bit.ly/9RfohY
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