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The facility will be charged with creating software search tools for Google. It is expected to create as many as 100 new high-tech jobs in the Pittsburgh area over the next few years, said Craig Nevill-Manning, director of Google's New York engineering office."There were smart people who lived in Pittsburgh who wanted to keep living in Pittsburgh," he said at a news conference, explaining the company's reasons for coming to the city.
The office will be headed by Andrew Moore, a Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science and robotics who currently runs a research laboratory of 30 students, programmers and faculty members. Moore, 40, is an expert in data mining and artificial intelligence.
[post-gazette.com...]
Despite reports from state economic development officials that the Google office would be in CMU's tech-heavy Collaborative Innovation Center, Google representatives said an office site has yet to be decided on, but said the operation will be headed by Andrew Moore, a CMU computer science and robotics professor who chairs a lab that tracks patterns in data.
"There were smart people who lived in Pittsburgh who wanted to keep living in Pittsburgh"
Well, then they can't be *that* smart. ;)
Sorry, had to say it. :)
Seriously though, its great to get this kind of jobs for Pittsburgh, we could certainly use it.
Thanks Google!
[edited by: rogerd at 4:11 am (utc) on Dec. 16, 2005]
And I second skibum's rating of the talent to be found there: top notch.
