Google hosts ‘Coding Jam’ for computer programming students

September 25, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Students from BYU and UVU attended a coding competition on Sept. 19 that was hosted by Google and BYU’s Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) club. The BYU ACM club  is a chapter of the national ACM organization created for programmers. The club  invited four Google recruiters to host the event, all of whom also gave […]

Your education might be your last hope

April 16, 2012

Reading Time: 5 minutes I have a friend who was told by a prospective employer that she would not get the job because she is not a Mormon.   I have another friend who published an article examining her personal experience with racism in the course of her education. She got more than a few angry replies. One man […]

Google Currents: a mobile look at magazines

April 12, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes In December 2011, Google, the user-friendly Internet giant, released an app for Android and iOS that allows users to read their favorite magazines on tablets and smart phones: Google Currents. About four months after its debut a new update improved the app’s speed and performance. The new improvements were all spurred by suggestions from users. […]

Piracy is bad, censorship is worse

January 18, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Twitter feeds are buzzing with chatter, hashtagged with words like SOPA, PIPA, censorship and blackout. Wikipedia, with estimated daily web traffic numbering in the tens of millions, was dark Wednesday in protest of current legislature working its way through the US House Judiciary Committee. The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act […]